The dream colony : a life in art

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An innovative, iconoclastic curator of contemporary art, Walter Hopps founded his first gallery in L.A. at the age of twenty-one. At twenty-four, he opened the Ferus Gallery with then-unknown artist Edward Kienholz, where he turned the spotlight on a new generation of West Coast artists. Ferus was also the first gallery ever to show Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans and was shut down by the L.A. vice squad for a show of Wallace Berman's edgy art...

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ISBN:

9781632865298
1632865297

Description:

xix, 312 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm

Notes:

Includes index

Contents:

Childhood
First encounters with music and art
Early days of curating: jazz and Syndell Studio
The Ferus Gallery
Wallace Berman
The creation of Ferus II
Barnett Newman
Ferus II and John Altoon
Edwin Janss
Frank Stella and Andy Warhol
Edward Kienholz
The Pasadena Art Museum
Marcel Duchamp
The Pasadena Art Museum II
The 1965 São Paulo Bienal
Frank Lobdell and Joseph Cornell
Leaving Pasadena, and the Institute of Policy Studies
The Corcoran Gallery of Art
Three photographers
The 1972 Venice Biennale
The National Collection of Fine Arts
Robert Rauschenberg
The Menil Collection

LCCN:

2016055073

Control Number:

2377161

Other Authors:

Doran, Anne, 1957- interviewer
Ruscha, Edward, writer of introduction
Treisman, Deborah, 1970- editor

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