How Long to Read Lives of the Artists

How Long Does it Take to Read Lives of the Artists?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 34 minutes to read Lives of the Artists by Calvin Tomkins

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Whether writing about Jasper Johns or Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman or Richard Serra, Calvin Tomkins shows why it is both easier and more difficult to make art today. If art can be anything, where do you begin? For more than three decades Calvin Tomkins’s incisive profiles in The New Yorker have given readers the most satisfying reports on contemporary art and artists available in any language. In Lives of the Artists ten major artists are captured in Tomkins’s cool and ironic style to record the new directions art is taking during these days of limitless freedom. As formal technique and rigorous...

How long is Lives of the Artists?

Lives of the Artists by Calvin Tomkins is 272 pages long, and a total of 68,544 words.

This makes it 92% the length of the average book. It also has 84% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Lives of the Artists Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 14 minutes to read Lives of the Artists aloud.

What Reading Level is Lives of the Artists?

Lives of the Artists is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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