The Shores of Bohemia: A Cape Cod Story, 1910-1960

by Williams, John Taylor
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ISBN: 9780374262754
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Capturing an incredible era of American culture, The Shores of Bohemia is an intimate portrait of a legendary generation of artists, writers, activists, and dreamers who created a utopia on the shores of Cape Cod during the first half of the twentieth century.

Their names are iconic: Eugene O'Neill, Willem de Kooning, Josef and Annie Albers, Emma Goldman, Mary McCarthy, Edward Hopper, Walter Gropius--and the list goes on. Scorning the devastation that industrialization wrought on the nation's economy and culture, they gathered in the streets of Greenwich Village and the beachfronts of Cape Cod. They began as Progressives but soon turned to Socialism, then Communism. They founded theaters, periodicals, and art schools. They formed editorial boards that met in beach shacks; they performed radical new plays in a shanty on the docks where they could see the ocean through cracks in the floor. They welcomed the tremendous wave of talent fleeing Europe in the 1930s. At the end of their era, as the postwar economy boomed, they turned to Liberalism and became absorbed into a fragmenting culture of protest in the 1960s.

John Taylor Williams, who married into the Cape's artistic world and spent fifty years interviewing and walking the shores with these cultural and political revolutionaries, records the twisting lives and careers of a generation of American Bohemians. The Shores of Bohemia records a great set of shifts in American culture, the ideas and arguments fueled by drink that made for a fifty-year party of intellectual leaders and creative revolutionaries, who found a community as they created some of the great works of the American century. This is their story.

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Includes black-and-white images

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Author: Williams, John Taylor
  • ISBN: 9780374262754
  • Condition: Used
  • Number Of Pages: 352
  • Publication Year: 2022
Language: English

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