Winner of the Marfield Prize, National Award for Arts Writing Tippins tells riveting stories about the Chelsea's artists, but she also captures a much grander, and more pressing, narrative: that of the ongoing battle between art and capitalism in the city.
-- The New Yorker Since its founding by a utopian-minded French architect in 1884, New York's Chelsea Hotel has been a hotbed of artistic invention and inspiration.
Cultural luminaries from Bob Dylan to Sid Vicious, Thomas Wolfe to Andy Warhol, Dylan Thomas to Dee Dee Ramone -- all made the Chelsea the largest and longest-lived artists' community in the world.
Inside the Dream Palace tells the hotel's story, from its earliest days as a cooperative community, through its pop art, rock-and-roll, and punk periods, to its present transformation under new ownership.
By exploring what it takes to maintain a creative community and how artists have enhanced and informed New York City life, Tippins, author of the acclaimed February House, delivers a lively and masterly history of the Chelsea and those who cohabitated there.
Not only essential to the understanding of this crucial New York City -- and therefore American -- cultural landmark, but as majestic and populous as the edifice itself, and completely entertaining.
-- Daniel Menaker, author of My Mistake With her lively Inside the Dream Palace, literary biographer Sherill Tippins succeeds where other historians studying New York landmarks have failed: She understands that even the most splendid buildings are mere settings for the personalities that inhabit them, and wisely bypasses rote chronology for the vigor of cultural excavation .
The Chelsea Hotel may face an uncertain future, but Tippins's enchanting book guarantees its renown for generations to come.
-- Time Out New York About the Author: SHERILL TIPPINS is the author of February House: The Story of W.
Auden, Carson Mc Cullers, Jane and Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee Under One Roof.
| Narrative | That of the ongoing battle between art and capitalism in the city |
|---|---|
| York landmarks have failed | She understands that even the most splendid buildings are mere settings for the personalities that inhabit them and wisely bypasses rote chronology for the vigor of cultural excavation |
| Author | Sherill |
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Mariner Books Inside the dream palace: the life and times of new york's legendary chelsea hotel, paperback/sherill tippins
