Inside the Dream Palace: The Life and Times of New York's Legendary Chelsea Hotel
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| Rating | : | 4.11 (852 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0618726349 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 480 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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Sherill Tippins, author of the acclaimed February House, delivers a masterful and endlessly entertaining history of the Chelsea and of the successive generations of artists who have cohabited and created there, among them John Sloan, Edgar Lee Masters, Thomas Wolfe, Dylan Thomas, Arthur Miller, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe, Andy Warhol, Sam Shepard, Sid Vicious, and Dee Dee Ramone. Now as legendary as the artists it has housed and the countless creative collaborations it has sparked, the Chelsea has always stood as a mystery as well: Why and how did this hotel become the largest and longest-lived artists’ community in the known world? Inside the Dream Palace is the intimate and definitive story.Today the Chelsea stands poised in limbo between two futures: Will this symbol of New York's artistic invention be converted to a profit-driven business catering to the top one percent? Or will the Chelsea be given a rebirth through painstaking effort by the community that loves it? Set against these two competing possibilities, Inside the Dream Palace could not be more fascinating or timely.. The next best thing to having a room key to the Chelsea Hotel during each of its famous
Skeletons in the Chelsea C. Gottlieb What an extensive, well written and researched book! It is not only a who's who of the Hotel Chelsea but a lesson in history of NYC, the Chelsea neighborhood and architecture. I could not put this book down. It is long, with a great bibliography and photos. After reading, I spent hours on the internet researching more about each aspect of Hotel Chelsea, El Quijote and movies/stories written, and what happene. Interesting story seeclick I didn't really know what to expect when I started reading this book. All I really knew about it was connected to Dylan's Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands and his references to it. I was aware of the Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungeon tragedy and knew other artists had lived there. What I found was a tale rich with history and colorful characters, more stories of the tremendous toll drug and alcohol addiction take . "Great read!" according to mommylove. I loved the scope of history from the architecture and the artists who lived there from the beginning to the 90's. It goes very in depth with the origins of the design to the current state of the building. This book is a who's who of New York art from the conception of the hotel Chelsea through the sixties and 80's .I've discovered more artists and wonderful gossip in this book than is found on the internet
True to Hubert's vision, artists worked and trysted (and recombined) in wild pairings: Sam Shepard and Patti Smith; Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe; Jack Kerouac and Gore Vidal; Leonard Cohen and Janis Joplin; Dylan and Edie Sedgwick; Arthur C. --Jon Foro. And when his signature achievement, the Hotel Chelsea, opened in 1844, it immediately became a beacon for artists and inspiration, the spirits of creativity and collaboration literally blueprinted into its Victorian bricks and gables. An Best Book of the Month, December 2013: By the mid-nineteenth century, New York City was broke and divided, its coffers emptied by corrupt politicians and a vast chasm separating rich from the vast masses of the poor. Warhol's Superstars dined in its halls, and Dee Dee Ramone detoxed in its junk-friendly confines. With Inside the Dream Palace: The Life and