The Dream Colony: A Life in Art

by Deborah Treisman, Walter Hopps, Anne Doran

Book Overview

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A panoramic look at art in America in the second half of the twentieth century, through the eyes of the visionary curator who helped shape it.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1632865297
• ISBN13: 9781632865298
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.4"