04. A Tale of two Cities - New York
New York DaDa and Marcel Duchamp In this blog we explore the incredible phenomenon of Marcel Duchamp. My favourite collection of Books that I loved to read and gave me a wonderful foundation for forming the nucleus of a History of Art course I was putting together, was the "Time Life library" called "The World of . . . " series The books have long disappeared and I thought perhaps they can be found on-line. In my search I re-discovered the author of "the World of Duchamp" A writer and Scholar called Calvin Tomkins’s, who has subsequently written a revised Biography of Marcel Duchamp. It states: "A Biography arrives fifty-five years after the author’s first meeting with Marcel Duchamp. The encounter took place in October 1959 at the King Cole Bar in New York’s St. Regis Hotel. Tomkins, a thirty- three-year-old writer and editor of international news at Newsweek, had been assigned to interview the eminent seventy-two-...