5 Best art books like The Dream Colony: A Life in Art by Walter Hopps

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The Dream Colony: A Life in Art

By: Walter Hopps

4.13

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Art Forum's Best of 2017 List A panoramic look at art in America in the second half of the twentiet…

If you liked the art plot in The Dream Colony: A Life in Art by Walter Hopps , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. The Crying of Lot 49

By: Thomas Pynchon

3.69

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot … read more

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"As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine."

-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

"Death glided by, shadowless, among the empties on the grass."

-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

"I am having a hallucination now, I don't need drugs for that."

-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

"the casting had been typically Hollywood: they didn't look or act a bit alike."

-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

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2. High-Rise

By: J.G. Ballard

3.61

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battleg… read more

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"Togetherness is beating up an empty elevator."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

"this was an environment built, not for man, but for man's absence."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

"In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into the sky.j.g."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

"Not for the first time Laing reflected that he and his neighbors were eager for trouble as the most effective means of enlarging their sex lives."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

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3. The Lover

By: Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray , Maxine Hong Kingston

3.72

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

Set against the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, The Lover reveals the intimacies and intricaci… read more

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"He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"The air was blue, you could hold it in your hand. Blue. The sky was the continual throbbing of the brilliance of the light."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"You didn't have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn't exist. Either it was there at first glance or else it had never been."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

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4. Really the Blues

By: Barry Gifford , Bernard Wolfe , Mezz Mezzrow

4.15

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

The story of Milton Mezzrow—a white kid who fell in love with black culture. First published in 194… read more

Similar categories in Barry Gifford's Really the Blues book and Walter Hopps's The Dream Colony: A Life in Art

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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5. A Murder of Quality

By: John Le Carré

3.64

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of inter… read more

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6. Death in Venice

By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim

3.74

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael … read more

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"Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

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7. Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)

By: John Le Carré

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

John le Carre classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of interna… read more

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8. Steppenwolf

By: Hermann Hesse , Basil Creighton , کیکاووس جهانداری

4.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

Steppenwolfis a poetical self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf. Th… read more

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9. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

By: John Le Carré

3.94

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

In this classic, John le Carre's third novel and the first to earn him international acclaim, he cr… read more

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10. Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

By: Roland Barthes , Richard Howard

4.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

A graceful, contemplative volume, Camera Lucidawas first published in 1979. Commenting on artists s… read more

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11. The Intuitionist

By: Colson Whitehead

3.52

Format: None pages, Paperback

Verticality, architectural and social, is the lofty idea at the heart of Colson Whitehead's first n… read more

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12. When We Cease to Understand the World

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.14

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more

Similar categories in Benjamín Labatut's When We Cease to Understand the World book and Walter Hopps's The Dream Colony: A Life in Art

  • nonfiction
  • history
"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

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13. The Maniac

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more

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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"

-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac

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14. The Philosophy of Modern Song

By: Bob Dylan

3.80

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Vol… read more

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  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"The thing about being misunderstood is that it diminishes your enjoyment of life"

-Bob Dylan, The Philosophy of Modern Song

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15. Biography of X

By: Catherine Lacey

3.85

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From one of our fiercest stylists, a roaring epic chronicling the life, times, and secrets of a not… read more

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"One of the armed guards smiled and said, “God bless,"

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"Who can say who I are, how many I are, which I is the most I of my I’s?"

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"She could not hurt me. I had no more space, at the time, to hold any new hurts."

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"She kept losing track of the people she loved, and losing track of herself along with them."

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

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16. Our Strangers: Stories

By: Lydia Davis

3.92

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

Only available at independent bookstores and libraries, by request of the author. From one of the m… read more

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17. Don't Call Me Home: A Memoir

By: Alexandra Auder

3.88

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“Don’t Call Me Home is about madness and love. Alexandra tells the best stories about her extraordi… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont by Shawn Levy

18. The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont

By: Shawn Levy

3.67

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Since 1929, Hollywood’s brightest stars have flocked to the Chateau Marmont as if it were a second … read more

Similar categories in Shawn Levy's The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont book and Walter Hopps's The Dream Colony: A Life in Art

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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19. Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors

By: Ian Penman

4.02

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

Melodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir, essay in fragments, mystery - Fassbinder Thou… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"The problem with making art to wake people up: your ideal reader/viewer is therefore by definition probably asleep, and not the least bit interested in your kind of wake-up-you-sleepwalkers art."

-Ian Penman, Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors

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20. Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith

By: John F. Szwed

4.29

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

“The first comprehensive biography of this hipster magus . . . [John Szwed] allows different sides … read more

Similar categories in John F. Szwed's Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith book and Walter Hopps's The Dream Colony: A Life in Art

  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Dream Colony: A Life in Art by Walter Hopps

21. The Dream Colony: A Life in Art

By: Walter Hopps

4.13

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Art Forum's Best of 2017 List A panoramic look at art in America in the second half of the twentiet… read more

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  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction

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4.15

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4.14

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3.80

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Mona Awad

3.56

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Eliza Clark

3.90

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Miranda July

3.81

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Marie-Helene Bertino

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