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.
featuring
work by Spain Rodriguez, Sharon Rudahl, Peter Kuper, Sabrina Jones,
David Lasky, Afua Richardson, Lance Tooks, Milton Knight, and others.
The ebook edition is expanded from the paperback edition, and includes additional chapters on the swing music scene, La Boheme and midwest
bohemians, as well as expanded material on the Greenwich Village
intellectuals, Walt Whitman and Harlem jazz club Minton's Playhouse.
While I found the content interesting, the book itself was quite hard to
read. The graphics were very small making it difficult to see exactly
what they were saying. That said, I did learn some things about some
people that I didn't know. That in itself makes this worthy of reading.
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