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The definitive collection of artist profiles by legendary journalist and New Yorker writer Calvin Tomkins, from the 1960s to today In 1959, Calvin Tomkins interviewed Marcel Duchamp for Newsweek, beginning his six decade- long career writing about art. He then joined The New Yorker, where he has contributed dozens of profiles on the most interesting artists of the time, from Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg to Cindy Sherman and Mark Bradford. This six-volume set includes 82 of Tomkins's most significant profiles dating from 1962-2019. Part art history, part human interest, Tomkins offers insights and observations about the artists, their work, and the ever-changing art world they inhabit. Calvin Tomkins has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1960. He has written more than a dozen books, including The Bride and the Bachelors, Merchants and Masterpieces, Living Well Is the Best Revenge, Off the Wall, Duchamp: A Biography, and Lives of the Artists...

The gospel according to Marc. Marc Newson's complete works to date. He has designed chairs, restaurants, boutiques, cars, planes, and even a spaceship. For Australian Industrial designer Marc Newson, the sky is no limit. From mass-produced objects to limited edition furniture to fashion, Newson has blurred boundaries, mapped new territories, and made himself an international superstar. This comprehensive tome leaves no stone unturned in cataloguing all of Newson’s works to date, from early pieces such as Lockheed Lounge (which holds the world record for the highest price paid for a piece of designer furniture, at over two million dollars) through designs of household objects and more recent, large-scale projects such as the interior of Qantas’s A380 and the Aquariva boat. Encyclopedia-style entries, arranged chronologically by categories: Furniture, Objects, Interiors and Architecture, Timepieces and Jewelry, Transport, and Unreleased Projects. Extended, in-depth case studies for a selection of Newson’s most important projects: the Kelvin40 plane, Qantas Airbus A380, Gagosian art editions, Ford 021C, Ikepod watches...

Author Philip Mitchell and Judith Nasatir, Foreword by Bunny Williams Modern maximalist designer Philip Mitchell reveals his talent for blending collections, family heirlooms, con...

4 Volumes. John Milton, The Poetical Works. Limited edition. Bound in full tan morocco with the covers displaying ornate floral open-tooled detailing and bordering. Raised bands with...

A lovely small edition of the works of one of the great Romantic poets, with a lovely binding signed by Riviere & Son. Keats, John: The Poetical Works of John Keats; Reprinted from ...

AUTHOR: MILTON, John (Rev. Henry John Todd) TITLE: The Poetical Works of John Milton - WITH - Some Account of His Life And Writings. PUBLISHER: London: for many, 1801 - 1809. DES...

The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer; Edited From Numerous Manuscripts By The Rev. Walter W. Skeat Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1920 8vo, 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. (190 x 133 mm); pp xxi...

Earl of Chesterfield's letters to his son and luminaries of the day in 4 volumes in their original full leather bindings, published London J. Dodsley 1787. The spines have raised ban...

This hard back book is an important monograph on Verner Panton who was considered to have been one of Denmark's most influential furniture and interior designers of the second half o...

19th century Works of William Shakespeare comedies, histories, tragedies 3 volumes Each volume is filled with a collection of outstanding highly detailed engravings Each volume...

This monograph reproduces sculptures and works on paper completed over the last five years by Jasper Johns (born 1930), who in February 2011 became the first visual artist to receive...

Thirty-one volumes. First published in 25 volumes but eventually grew to 31 volumes as Kipling continued to write. Signed by Ruyard Kipling in volume one on the front title p...