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Badlands Unlimited

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Paperback, 5.25 x 8 in. / 110 pgs / 10 bw.

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D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: SPRING 2013 p. 182   

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ISBN 9781936440399 TRADE
List Price: $16.00 CDN $23.00

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"I love Calvin Tomkins' Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews. I've already gotten to use two quotes from the book. 'A mule's kick of debonair style' and 'badass 'tude.'"
- Jerry Saltz, Senior Art Critic, New York Magazine

  

BADLANDS UNLIMITED

Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews

By Calvin Tomkins.

Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews

Revelatory, previously unpublished interviews with Duchamp from his biographer and greatest champion

In 1964, Calvin Tomkins spent a number of afternoons interviewing Marcel Duchamp in his apartment on West 10th Street in New York. Casual yet insightful, Duchamp reveals himself as a man and an artist whose playful principles toward living freed him to make art that was as unpredictable, complex, and surprising as life itself. Those interviews have never been edited and made public, until now. The Afternoon Interviews, which includes an introductory interview with Tomkins reflecting on Duchamp as an artist, guide and friend, reintroduces the reader to key ideas of his artistic world and renews Duchamp as a vital model for a new generation of artists.

Calvin Tomkins was born in 1925 in Orange, New Jersey. He joined the New Yorker as a staff writer in 1960. His many profiles include John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, Merce Cunningham, Leo Castelli, Damien Hirst, Richard Serra, Bruce Nauman, Cindy Sherman and Jasper Johns. Tomkins is the author of 12 books, including The Bride and the Bachelors (1965), Living Well Is the Best Revenge (1971), Lives of the Artists (2008) and Duchamp: A Biography (1996).

Featured image is reproduced from Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews.

PRAISE AND REVIEWS

Art in America

Brian Boucher

A forthcoming book presents previously unpublished interviews with Marcel Duchamp from 1964 by longtime New Yorker contributor Calvin Tompkins. Adding to the veritable industry of publications devoted to the artist.'

Art in America

Sue Taylor

These previously unreleased interviews, conducted in Duchamp's New York home in 1964, reveal the master at his playful, ever-provocative ease.

Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews

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FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/7/2013

Maurizio Cattelan Recommends 'Marcel Duchamp: the Afternoon Interviews' (plus free lenticular postcard) at our Armory & Independent Bookstores

Maurizio Cattelan Recommends 'Marcel Duchamp: the Afternoon Interviews' (plus free lenticular postcard) at our Armory & Independent Bookstores

Visit the ARTBOOK | D.A.P. pop-up bookstores at The Armory Show and the Independent this week in New York and get a free, G-rated lenticular postcard with the purchase of Badlands Unlimited's newly released best-seller, Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews, by Calvin Tomkins—recommended here by latter-day Dadaist, Maurizio Cattelan.
Visitors to The Armory Show can also get their limited edition lenticulars after the 5PM Friday Duchamp panel, "Posterity Will Have a Word to Say," featuring artist and Badlands Unlimited publisher Paul Chan, alongside Carlos Basualdo, Daniel Birnbaum, Molly Nesbit and moderator Jan Ĺman. The panel will be followed by a book signing organized by ARTBOOK | D.A.P.. continue to blog


FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 1/8/2013

Lost Treasure: Calvin Tomkins' Afternoon Interviews with Marcel Duchamp

Lost Treasure: Calvin Tomkins' Afternoon Interviews with Marcel Duchamp

In 1964, Calvin Tomkins interviewed Marcel Duchamp in the artist's apartment over a series of relaxed afternoons. The transcripts were never edited or published—until now, in a new collection from Paul Chan's Badlands Unlimited. The book is a delight to read, full of playful ideas and unguarded responses. For example, when asked about the importance of art dealers, Duchamp replied, "Very good and very bad at the same time. They have launched so many young people. They are the lice on the back of the artist. The collectors are also parasites. The artist is the beautiful flower on which all these parasites go around. I like them very much because they are very nice people, but that has nothing to do with their essential quality, which is to be a parasite on the artist." Featured image is reproduced from Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews, by Calvin Tomkins. continue to blog


FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 2/12/2013

Calvin Tomkins to Sign 'Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews' at the 2013 CAA Conference

Calvin Tomkins to Sign 'Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews' at the 2013 CAA Conference


On Thursday, February 14th at 2 p.m., noted New Yorker writer Calvin Tomkins will sign copies of his new book, Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews, published by Badlands Unlimited, at the ARTBOOK | D.A.P. bookstore (booth 505-507).
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FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

MIRANDA DI CARCACI | DATE 3/7/2013

Badlands Unlimited Launches 'Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews' at Marshall Chess Club, NY

Badlands Unlimited Launches 'Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews' at Marshall Chess Club, NY

On the evening of February 26, some of the great and the good of the art and publishing worlds gathered at the Marshall Chess Club to celebrate the publication of Calvin TomkinsMarcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews.
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FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

ELIZABETH KARP-EVANS | DATE 3/18/2013

'Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews' Goes Global

'Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews' Goes Global


Badlands Unlimited's newly-released best-seller, Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews, is getting a lot of attention. Fans of the book--and of its publisher, artist Paul Chan--have started a grassroots social media campaign, snapping photos of themselves reading the paperback (and e-book edition) all over the world.
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