The first Bohemians
Subtitle: life and art in London's golden age
By: Vic Gatrell
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780718195830
Subjects: British Art; History; Intellectual life
Description: In the teeming, disordered, and sexually charged square half-mile centered on London's Covent Garden something extraordinary evolved in the 18th century. It was the world's first creative 'Bohemia'. The nation's most significant artists, actors, poets, novelists, and dramatists lived here. Vic Gatrell recreates this time and place by drawing on a vast range of sources, showing the deepening fascination with 'real life' that resulted in the work of artists like Hogarth, Blake, and Rowlandson, or in great literary works like The Beg.
Notes: Originally published: London: Allen Lane, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-460) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I Covent Garden; title: 1 A Sense of Place; title: 2 A Low and Turbulent People; title: 3 Harlots; title: Part II Artists; title: 4 The First Bohemians; title: 5 The Men's World; title: 6 Real Life; title: 7 Hogarth and Low Life; title: 8 Rowlandson's London; title: 9 The Gordon Riots: An Ending; title: 10 Turner, Ruskin and Covent Garden: An Aftermath.