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Bohemians The Glamorous Outcasts #891482

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Bohemians The Glamorous Outcasts #891482
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Wilson, Elizabeth
Title:Bohemians: The Glamorous Outcasts <p> Rutgers University Press, 2000. Hard Cover 275 pages. Brand New. <p> Since the early 19th century, the bohemian has been the protagonist of the story the West has wanted to hear about its artists a story of genius, glamour, and doom, whether dying in poverty like Modigliani or drug-addicted and outcast like Weimar Berlin's erotic performance artist Anita Berber. Sociologist Elizabeth Wilson searches here for the many shifting meanings that constitute the bohemian and bohemia. She tells stories of the artists, intellectuals, radicals, and hangers-on who populated the salons, bars, and cafes of Paris, London, New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Djuna Barnes, Juliette Greco, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Amiri Baraka, Andy Warhol, and Jackson Pollock are profiled in context here, as are the women who contributed to the myth the wives and mistresses, the muses, lesbians, and independent artists. Wilson explores the bohemians eccentric use of dress, the role of sex and erotic love, the bohemian search for excess, the intransigent politics that are often espoused, and current cultural debates about the role of art and artists in an increasingly commodified and technological world.
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