Bohemia
03 Oct 1994 12:00
I don't have to prove
That I am creative
I mean the cultural nieche, of course, not the country.
See:
- Hannah Arendt, The Origins of
Totalitarianism
- Jacques Barzun, Berlioz and the Romantic
Century
- Bruce Sterling has some interesting essays about bohemia. I'll link to them
eventually.
To read:
- Bradshaw, Cafe Society
- Mark Dery, The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American Culture on
the Brink
- Herbert Gold, Bohemia
- Paul Metzner, Crescendo of the Virtuoso: Spectacle, Skill,
and Self-Promotion in Paris during the Age of Revolution [i.e.,
1775--1850. Blurb, with
link to free on-line edition]
- Miller, Bohemia: the Proto-Culture
- Virgina Nicholson, Among the Bohemians: Experiments in
Living, 1900--1939
- Albert Parry, Garrets and Pretenders: a History of
Bohemianism in America
- Ann Powers, Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America
- Jerrold Seigel, Bohemian Paris
- Elizabeth Wilson, Bohemians: The Glamorous Outcasts
