Pekar and Crumb in Cleveland / Where bohemia began / Mark Crilley. Utopias and free lovers / Lisa Lyons -- Queen of bohemia / Sharon Rudahl -- Walt Whitman. First impressions / Sabrina Jones -- "Crossing Brooklyn ferry" / Sabrina Jones -- Victorian bohemia. Amazing tale of Victoria Woodhull / Sharon Rudahl -- Oscar Wilde in America / Ellen Lindner -- Those bohemian immigrants: Germans and Jews / David Lasky -- Trilbymania / Sharon Rudahl -- Village days. Masses / Rebecca Migdal -- Mabel Dodge / Matt Howarth -- Arturo Giovannitti: bohemian rebel, labor champion, and poet / Steve Stiles -- Art and the artist. Frowning prophet and the smiling revolutionary: modern art arrives in New York / Dan Steffan -- Claude McKay / Lance Tooks -- Outward bound. Henry Miller and his bohemian wheel / Spain Rodriguez -- Sex boys / Matt Howarth -- Modicot / Spain Rodriguez and Jay Kinney -- Carl Van Vechten / Hilary Allison -- Salons de Paris / Anne Timmons -- Josephine Baker: a walk in my dancing shoes / Afua Richardson -- Bringing bohemia home. Howard "Stretch" Johnson / Milton Knight -- 55 years: the story of Woody Guthrie / Jeffrey Lewis -- Strange fruit / Sharon Rudahl -- Katherine and Pearl: revolutionaries of twentieth-century dance / Lance Tooks -- Bohemians and hipsters. Bebop / Nick Thorkelson -- Modern dance: radicals bringing bohemia to the people / Lance Tooks -- Limbo / Peter Kuper -- Look back. Pekar and Crumb in Cleveland / Mark Crilley.
Summary:
"The nineteenth-century countercultures that came to define the bohemian lifestyle spanned both sides of the Atlantic, ranging from Walt Whitman to Josephine Baker, and from Gertrude Stein to Thelonius Monk. Bohemians is the graphic history of this movement and its illustrious figures, recovering the utopian ideas behind millennial communities, and covering the rise of Greenwich Village, the multiracial and radical jazz world, and West Coast and Midwest bohemians, among other scenes. Drawn by an all-star cast of comics artists, including rising figures like Sabrina Jones, Lance Tooks, and Summer McClinton, alongside established artists like Peter Kuper and Spain Rodriguez, Bohemians is a broad and entertaining account of the rebel impulse in American cultural history"-- Provided by publisher. "The countercultures that came to define bohemia spanned the Atlantic, from Walt Whitman to Josephine Baker, and from Gertrude Stein to Thelonious Monk. Bohemians is the graphic history of this movement and its illustrious figures, recovering the utopian ideas behind millennial communities, the rise of Greenwich Village and Harlem, the multiracial and radical jazz and dance worlds, and West Coast, Southern, and Midwest bohemias, among other scenes. Drawn by an all-star cast of comics artists, Bohemians is a broad and entertaining account of the rebel impulse in American cultural history"-- Provided by publisher.
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