Dennis Hopper : the wild ride of a Hollywood rebel / Peter L. Winkler.

By: Winkler, Peter L [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Fort Lee, N.J. : Barricade Books Inc., [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 376 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781569805138; 156980513XSubject(s): Hopper, Dennis, 1936-2010 | Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography | Motion picture producers and directors -- United States -- BiographyDDC classification: 791.43/028092 | B Summary: One of America's most intriguing show business luminaries and true rebels, Dennis Hopper's amazing life was a roller coaster series of triumphs and failures. Always intent on proving his genius and leaving a legacy, the Emmy winning and Oscar-nominated Hopper acted in more than 115 movies and four TV series, directed seven films, and passionately pursued an artist's life as a photographer and creator and collector of modern art, embracing the work of artists like Warhol and Lichtenstein before the label "pop art" was even coined. Dennis Hopper: The Wild Ride of a Hollywood Rebel explores Hopper's life from his lonely childhood in Kansas, where he became determined to win the affection of others by becoming a great artist, to his often drug-fueled days and nights in Hollywood and his spiritual home in Taos, New Mexico.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

One of America's most intriguing show business luminaries and true rebels, Dennis Hopper's amazing life was a roller coaster series of triumphs and failures. Always intent on proving his genius and leaving a legacy, the Emmy winning and Oscar-nominated Hopper acted in more than 115 movies and four TV series, directed seven films, and passionately pursued an artist's life as a photographer and creator and collector of modern art, embracing the work of artists like Warhol and Lichtenstein before the label "pop art" was even coined. Dennis Hopper: The Wild Ride of a Hollywood Rebel explores Hopper's life from his lonely childhood in Kansas, where he became determined to win the affection of others by becoming a great artist, to his often drug-fueled days and nights in Hollywood and his spiritual home in Taos, New Mexico.

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