{"product_id":"the-dream-colony-a-life-in-art-9781639734856","title":"The Dream Colony: A Life in Art","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eArt Forum's\u003c\/i\u003e Best of the Year List\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An intimate tour through fifty years of American art history\" (\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e) through the eyes of the visionary curator who helped shape it-with an introduction by legendary artist Ed Ruscha\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn innovative, iconoclastic curator of contemporary art, Walter Hopps founded his first gallery at the age of twenty-one. At twenty-four, he opened the Ferus Gallery with then-unknown artist Edward Kienholz. Ferus turned the spotlight on a new generation of West Coast artists, premiered Andy Warhol's \u003ci\u003eCampbell's Soup Cans\u003c\/i\u003e, and was at one point shut down by the L.A. vice squad for a show of Wallace Berman's edgy art. In the sixties, Hopps mounted the first museum retrospectives of Marcel Duchamp and Joseph Cornell and the first museum exhibition of Pop Art-before it was even known as Pop Art. When Hopps became the director of Washington's Corcoran Gallery of Art at age thirty-four, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ehailed him as \"the most gifted museum man on the West Coast (and, in the field of contemporary art, possibly in the nation).\" He was also arguably the most unpredictable, an eccentric genius who was chronically late. (His staff at the Cocoran had a button made that said \"Walter Hopps will be here in twenty minutes.\") Erratic in his work habits, he never wavered in his commitment to art. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA few years before his death in 2005, Hopps began work on this book, a vivid, personal, surprising, irreverent, and enlightening account of his life and of some of the greatest artistic minds of the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781639734856\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.51w x 1.00d","brand":"Walter Hopps, Deborah Treisman, Anne Doran","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44608408617141,"sku":"9781639734856","price":18.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_efa7a341-769d-4860-a447-e131b4c06e20.jpg?v=1725374707","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-dream-colony-a-life-in-art-9781639734856","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}