Artistic life, a platform for creation

The book “Portraits of Contemporary Art” is shaped by emphasizing the lifestyle of artists and the circumstances that governed the creation of their works. In this book, Calvin Tomkins has interviewed artists: painter and sculptor Damien Hirst, photographer Cindy Sherman, director and screenwriter Julian Schnabel, sculptor Richard Serra, lighting artist James Turrell, sculptor and filmmaker Matthew Barney, painter and photographer Maurizio Cattelan, American painter Jasper Johns, painter and sculptor Jeff Koons, and musician John Karin. In the following, we will publish parts of this review and interviews with 10 artists in order.