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Title: Bohemian Paris: Culture, Politics, and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life, 1830-1930 by Jerrold Seigel ISBN: 0-8018-6063-6 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: December, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Short and Sweet...
Comment: After reading the only review posted of this book, I thought maybe I hadn't actually read the said book. I'll blame it on how I tend to skim through these sorts of things hardly paying attention. Point is, the review lost me in about the first two sentences. John Lennon? I don't criticize the review or anything - I can, indeed, make the connections - but I read the book more for the information on Murger, Verlaine, Jarry, and the rest of them... So what I'm trying to say is, if you want a great bohemian read totally packed with interesting stuff, read the book. It's a good one.
Rating: 5
Summary: The First Bobos
Comment: I first came across this book several years ago when writing about Jacques Offenbach. At that time, I much enjoyed both the author's erudition and his dead-on social analysis. Seigel demonstrates how, in mid-nineteenth century Paris, the eager purchase by the bourgeois of "revolutionary" works of art (literature, paintings, drama, music, etc.) deadened the intended meaning of those works, and, by making their creators wealthy, changed the artists' own feelings about their society. Seigel sees this cooption as an intrinsic function of capitalism, and its own best defense against violent revolution. The parallels for our society seem clear to the reader (Seigel does not discuss them) - just as Henri Murger, author of "La Vie de Boheme", grew rich enough to buy a country estate (and then killed himself) so John Lennon took the money from "Revolution" and bought New York real estate. Mick Jagger is today one of the largest and wealthiest landowners in Britain - and one could extend this list indefinitely.
Over the years, I thought of Seigel's analysis on occasion - for instance, when reading plaintive complaints about the "misuse" of rock in TV commercials. But I didn't bother to pick up the book again until reading a new book with "bohemian" and "bourgeois" together - Brooks' "Bobos in Paradise" - which does not cite this book. Hmm. It's very true that Brooks may simply be a keen observer - after all, our intellectual culture is a direct descendant of that discussed by Seigel. So let's leave it at that - and suggest that anyone seriously interested in "Bobos" would do very well indeed to read this volume.
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Title: Bohemian Paris: Picasso, Modigliani, Matisse, and the Birth of Modern Art by Dan Franck, Cynthia Liebow ISBN: 0802139973 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Women of the Left Bank by Shari Benstock ISBN: 0292790406 Publisher: Univ of Texas Press Pub. Date: 1987 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Paris Was Yesterday, 1925-1939 by Janet (Genet) Flanner ISBN: 0156709902 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 18 April, 1988 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Bohemians: The Glamorous Outcasts by Elizabeth Wilson ISBN: 0813528941 Publisher: Rutgers University Press Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: France in Modern Times: From the Enlightenment to the Present by Gordon Wright ISBN: 0393967050 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: February, 1995 List Price(USD): $34.80 |
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