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During the 1960s, Dennis Hopper carried a camera everywhere—on film sets, at parties, in diners, bars and galleries, and through political marches. Along the way, he captured the most intriguing moments of his generation. Compiled by Hopper himself and including incisive essays and interview excerpts, this volume distills the photographic career of one of America’s most fascinating personalities.

“I was doing something that I thought could have some impact someday. In many ways, it’s really these photographs that kept me going creatively.”

– Denis Hopper

During the 1960s, Dennis Hopper carried a camera everywhere—on film sets and locations, at parties, in diners, bars and galleries, driving on freeways and walking on political marches. He photographed movie idols, pop stars, writers, artists, girlfriends, and complete strangers.

Along the way he captured some of the most intriguing moments of his generation with a keen and intuitive eye.

A reluctant icon at the epicenter of that decade’s cultural upheaval, Hopper documented the likes of Tina Turner in the studio, Andy Warhol at his first West Coast show, Paul Newman on set, and Martin Luther King during the Civil Rights March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.

From a selection of photographs compiled by Hopper and gallerist Tony Shafrazi, this extensive volume, finally back in print in a new edition, distills the essence of Hopper’s prodigious photographic career. Also included are introductory essays by Shafrazi and West Coast art pioneer Walter Hopps, as well as an extensive biography and new afterword by journalist Jessica Hundley. With excerpts from Victor Bockris’s interviews of Hopper’s famous subjects, friends, and family, this volume revives an unprecedented exploration of the life and mind of one of America’s most fascinating personalities.

XXL

Languages: English, French, German

Edition of 788

Hardcover in clamshell box, 33 x 44 cm, 6.68 kg, 474 pages

“Paint is the crusty residue left after the relationship between the artist and their model is over. It is all there is left of real love, so I paint that.”

– Glenn Brown

In his paintings, paint sculptures, and drawings, Glenn Brown confronts the history of art with a contemporary understanding of paint’s materiality and a barbed sense of color. This Collector’s Edition treats the viewer to a close encounter with Brown’s eye-deceiving renderings of brushstrokes from sources between Sci-fi and the old masters.

The main spirit that runs through Glenn Brown’s work is transformation. The motif may come from old master paintings, the color scheme from modernist ones, the mood might be set by a title that quotes from a pop song. Brown became famous (and sometimes infamous) for his unabashedly appropriative work in the early 1990s, a golden era for young British art. He rendered the thick brushstrokes of expressionist painters like Frank Auerbach or Karel Appel almost photo-realistically, carefully modeling their dashing gestures with a fine brush until his smooth surfaces deceived the viewer’s eye. Taking space fantasies from science-fiction paperbacks, he made epic history paintings out of tiny book illustrations. Brown turned to the old masters, updating their historical models with a contemporary understanding of paint’s materiality and a barbed sense of color.

This book has been conceived and realized in close collaboration with the artist, curating an overview of his work in unprecedented depth.

All authors have worked with Brown before to now deliver an incisive portrait of the artist, an art-historical survey of his work and development, as well as essays on different artistic approaches and genres. Comments written by Brown especially for this edition discuss specific works and artistic choices.

“… I see their worlds… through all their eyes. Their sources of inspiration suggest things I would never normally see.”

– Glenn Brown

Glenn Brown, CBE (born 1966), is a British painter and sculptor based in London. Setting out in the 1990s, nominated for the Turner Prize in 2000, he had solo shows in international institutions including the Serpentine and the British Museum in London, the Tate Liverpool, the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, the Fondation Vincent van Gogh in Arles, and the Sprengel Museum Hanover. In 2022 he opened his own museum, The Brown Collection.

Collector’s Edition (No. 213–1,000), numbered and signed by Glenn Brown.