Inside the Dream Palace

Name: Inside the Dream Palace
Brand: HMH Books
SKU: 9780544334472
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The Life and Times of New York's Legendary Chelsea Hotel

Автор: Sherill Tippins

Език:

Корици: С меки корици

Издател: HMH Books

Наличност: Външен склад

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Winner of the Marfield Prize, National Award for Arts Writing§§"Tippins tells riveting stories about...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Sherill Tippins

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2014

страници

496

EAN

9780544334472

ISBN

0544334477

Enbook ID

09094537

Издател

HMH Books

Теглоt

435

Размери

135 x 203 x 30

Пълно описание

Winner of the Marfield Prize, National Award for Arts Writing§§"Tippins tells riveting stories about the Chelsea's artists, but she also captures a much grander, and more pressing, narrative: that of the ongoing battle between art and capitalism in the city." - The New Yorker§§Since its founding by a utopian-minded French architect in 1884, New York's Chelsea Hotel has been a hotbed of artistic invention and inspiration. Cultural luminaries from Bob Dylan to Sid Vicious, Thomas Wolfe to Andy Warhol, Dylan Thomas to Dee Dee Ramone - all made the Chelsea the largest and longest-lived artists' community in the world. Inside the Dream Palace tells the hotel's story, from its earliest days as a cooperative community, through its pop art, rock-and-roll, and punk periods, to its present transformation under new ownership. By exploring what it takes to maintain a creative community and how artists have enhanced and informed New York City life, Tippins, author of the acclaimed February House , delivers a lively and masterly history of the Chelsea and those who cohabitated there.§§"Not only essential to the understanding of this crucial New York City - and therefore American - cultural landmark, but as majestic and populous as the edifice itself, and completely entertaining." - Daniel Menaker, author of My Mistake§§"With her lively Inside the Dream Palace , literary biographer Sherill Tippins succeeds where other historians studying New York landmarks have failed: She understands that even the most splendid buildings are mere settings for the personalities that inhabit them, and wisely bypasses rote chronology for the vigor of cultural excavation . . . The Chelsea Hotel may face an uncertain future, but Tippins's enchanting book guarantees its renown for generations to come." - Time Out New York

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