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Saturday, August 7, 2010

Lives of the Artists by Calvin Tomkins



Kind of fluffy profiles of several contemporary artists. The profiles matched the artists' work, which is, for the most part, lacking - both visually and in substance. Also, I think that these quicky profiles/bios do a disservice to the idea that there had to be some degeree of stuggle in creating the work, in spite of the artists' remarkable success. Although you'd never know it by the quality of his work or the size of his bank account, I'm sure that Jeff Koons spent some time looking into the abyss. The abyss was glossed over in this book.

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