Attempted Bloggery: Peter Schjeldahl

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Saturday, September 7, 2024

Peter and Brooke Schjeldahl's Copy of Lives of the Artists by Calvin Tomkins

The title Lives of the Artists properly belongs to Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574), biographer of Renaissance artistic luminaries. It was used more recently, in 2008, by Calvin Tomkins (born 1925) for his collected New Yorker profiles of contemporary artists. The copy inscribed in the year of publication to another New Yorker writer on the arts, the late Peter Schjeldahl (1942-2022) and his wife Brooke, is currently listed on AbeBooks. At just 254 pages, though, this is evidently not the full six-volume, 1640 page edition. Priced at $50, it still seems a good deal.

Calvin Tomkins
AbeBooks listing accessed September 6, 2024

https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31969358087&searchurl=attrs%3Dsgnd%26ds%3D30%26isbn%3D9780805088724%26rollup%3Don%26sgnd%3Don%26sortby%3D17&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp0-_-title2

The shipping cost is $6 to a US address, but $32 to a German one. I have no idea why this came up.

Note: Please check your library for books inscribed from one New Yorker writer or artist to another. I just might have a place for you to show them off on this blog.

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Friday, December 22, 2023

Peter Schjeldahl's Copy of Keith Haring [Tony Shafrazi Gallery Catalogue]

In 1982, the Tony Shafrazi Gallery issued a catalogue surveying the work of Keith Haring (1958-1990). The artist inscribed a copy to art critic Peter Schjeldahl (1942-2022) with a full page drawing. Schjeldahl would later become the art critic for the Village Voice in 1990 and for The New Yorker in 1998. The catalogue survived an apartment fire in 2019. A year after Schjeldahl's death from lung cancer, the spiral bound book has been brought to the market.