The Bride and the Bachelors

Five Masters of the Avant Garde

Author: Calvin Tomkins
ISBN: 0140043136

An aesthetic subversive who signed his name on a bottle-drying rack and called it "readymade" art. A composer who cast the rules of music to the winds in order to "let sounds be themselves." A maker of suicidal machines. An artist whose pieces incorporate real bedclothes and stuffed goats. A choreographer who delights in the prosaic and the awkward. With lively understanding and irreverent wit, distinguished art critic Calvin Tomkins deciphers the challenging-and sometimes mystifying-work of Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Jean Tinguely, Robert Rauschenberg, and Cerce Cunningham.

Publisher: Penguin Books
Publish Date: 1976-01

Subjects: Art / Criticism & Theory, Art / Individual Artists / General, Art / Popular Culture, Biography & Autobiography / Artists, Architects, Photographers

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