| Description |
xix, 457 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
The Chelsea Association -- The coast of Bohemia -- Four saints in three acts -- Howl -- After the fall -- A strange dream -- The price -- Naked lunch -- Mahagonny -- Epilogue : second life. |
| Summary |
"An icon of American artistic invention, the Chelsea Hotel has been, since its founding by a French socialist utopian in 1884, a cultural dynamo lodged in the very heart of uber-capitalist New York City. Sherill Tippins, author of the acclaimed February House, delivers a lively, masterly history of the Chelsea and of the successive generations of artists who have cohabited and created there, among them John Sloan, Edgar Lee Masters, Isabella Stewart Gardner, 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 of the known world? Inside the Dream Palace gives the intimate and definitive story"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-430) and index. |
| Subject |
Chelsea Hotel -- History.
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Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life.
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Chelsea Hotel -- Biography.
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Arts, American -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
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Artists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
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Eccentrics and eccentricities -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
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Apartment dwellers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
9780618726349 hardback |
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0618726349 hardback |
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