The First Bohemians : Life and Art in London's Golden Age by Vic Gatrell download FB2, DJV, DOC
9780718195830 English 0718195833 In the teeming, disordered, and sexually charged square half-mile centred on London's Covent Garden something extraordinary evolved in the eighteenth century. It was the world's first creative 'Bohemia'. The nation's most significant artists, actors, poets, novelists, and dramatists lived here. From Soho and Leicester Square across Covent Garden's Piazza to Drury Lane, and down from Long Acre to the Strand, they rubbed shoulders with rakes, prostitutes, market people, craftsmen, and shopkeepers. It was an often brutal world full of criminality, poverty and feuds, but also of high spirits, and an intimacy that was as culturally creative as any other in history. Virtually everything that we associate with Georgian culture was produced here. 'A jostling, ripely enjoyable social history of a time when central London had its own raffish left bank.' P eter Conrad, Observer , Books of the Year 'A gorgeously engrossing book, bracingly sceptical of received pieties . . . As well as recording Covent Garden's buzz and buoyancy, Gatrell aims to alter how we think about eighteenth-century painting ... against Reynolds and the Royal Academicians Gatrell pits the realists, who drew or painted the street life of workaday Londoners. Boozy, arty and sexually charged, Covent Garden in the mid-1700s surges spectacularly into life in this engrossing history.' John Carey, Sunday Times 'Welcome to Vic Gatrell's London . . . His brilliant account brings it all to life . . . In its sweep of visual arts, social history, literary criticism and bawdy culture The First Bohemians provides a superb chronicle of a golden age of authentic, urban creativity.' Tristram Hunt, The Times 'Rich and surprising . . . nobody knows this world better than Gatrell, and the result is a sumptuous, teeming with cartoonists, poets and streetwalkers.' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times , Books of the Year 'The great joy of the book is how effortlessly and continuously his narrative and pictures illuminate one another . . . It is a tour de force of social and pictorial history that few living historians could match . . . a triumphantly successful re-creation of a fascinating world.' Faramerz Dabhoiwala, Guardian, The colorful, salacious, and sumptuously illustrated story of Covent Garden, the creative heart of Georgian London 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. From Soho and Leicester Square across Covent Garden's Piazza to Drury Lane, and down from Long Acre to the Strand, they rubbed shoulders with rakes, prostitutes, market people, craftsmen, and shopkeepers. It was an often brutal world full of criminality, poverty, and feuds, but also of high spirits, and an intimacy that was as culturally creative as any other in history. Vic Gatrell's spectacular new book 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 Beggar's Opera and Moll Flanders . The First Bohemians is illustrated by more than 200 extraordinary pictures, many rarely seen, for Gatrell celebrates above all one of the most fertile eras in Britain's artistic history. He writes about Joshua Reynolds and J. M. W. Turner as well as the forgotten figures who contributed to what was a true golden age: the men and women who briefly dazzled their contemporaries before being destroyed--or made--by this magical but also ferocious world., The colourful, salacious and sumptuously illustrated story of Covent Garden - the creative heart of Georgian London - from Wolfson Prize-winning author Vic Gatrell SHORT-LISTED FOR THE HESSELL TILTMAN PRIZE 2014In the teeming, disordered, and sexually charged square half-mile centred on London's Covent Garden something extraordinary evolved in the eighteenth century. It was the world's first creative 'Bohemia'. The nation's most significant artists, actors, poets, novelists, and dramatists lived here. From Soho and Leicester Square across Covent Garden's Piazza to Drury Lane, and down from Long Acre to the Strand, they rubbed shoulders with rakes, prostitutes, market people, craftsmen, and shopkeepers. It was an often brutal world full of criminality, poverty and feuds, but also of high spirits, and an intimacy that was as culturally creative as any other in history. Virtually everything that we associate with Georgian culture was produced here.
9780718195830 English 0718195833 In the teeming, disordered, and sexually charged square half-mile centred on London's Covent Garden something extraordinary evolved in the eighteenth century. It was the world's first creative 'Bohemia'. The nation's most significant artists, actors, poets, novelists, and dramatists lived here. From Soho and Leicester Square across Covent Garden's Piazza to Drury Lane, and down from Long Acre to the Strand, they rubbed shoulders with rakes, prostitutes, market people, craftsmen, and shopkeepers. It was an often brutal world full of criminality, poverty and feuds, but also of high spirits, and an intimacy that was as culturally creative as any other in history. Virtually everything that we associate with Georgian culture was produced here. 'A jostling, ripely enjoyable social history of a time when central London had its own raffish left bank.' P eter Conrad, Observer , Books of the Year 'A gorgeously engrossing book, bracingly sceptical of received pieties . . . As well as recording Covent Garden's buzz and buoyancy, Gatrell aims to alter how we think about eighteenth-century painting ... against Reynolds and the Royal Academicians Gatrell pits the realists, who drew or painted the street life of workaday Londoners. Boozy, arty and sexually charged, Covent Garden in the mid-1700s surges spectacularly into life in this engrossing history.' John Carey, Sunday Times 'Welcome to Vic Gatrell's London . . . His brilliant account brings it all to life . . . In its sweep of visual arts, social history, literary criticism and bawdy culture The First Bohemians provides a superb chronicle of a golden age of authentic, urban creativity.' Tristram Hunt, The Times 'Rich and surprising . . . nobody knows this world better than Gatrell, and the result is a sumptuous, teeming with cartoonists, poets and streetwalkers.' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times , Books of the Year 'The great joy of the book is how effortlessly and continuously his narrative and pictures illuminate one another . . . It is a tour de force of social and pictorial history that few living historians could match . . . a triumphantly successful re-creation of a fascinating world.' Faramerz Dabhoiwala, Guardian, The colorful, salacious, and sumptuously illustrated story of Covent Garden, the creative heart of Georgian London 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. From Soho and Leicester Square across Covent Garden's Piazza to Drury Lane, and down from Long Acre to the Strand, they rubbed shoulders with rakes, prostitutes, market people, craftsmen, and shopkeepers. It was an often brutal world full of criminality, poverty, and feuds, but also of high spirits, and an intimacy that was as culturally creative as any other in history. Vic Gatrell's spectacular new book 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 Beggar's Opera and Moll Flanders . The First Bohemians is illustrated by more than 200 extraordinary pictures, many rarely seen, for Gatrell celebrates above all one of the most fertile eras in Britain's artistic history. He writes about Joshua Reynolds and J. M. W. Turner as well as the forgotten figures who contributed to what was a true golden age: the men and women who briefly dazzled their contemporaries before being destroyed--or made--by this magical but also ferocious world., The colourful, salacious and sumptuously illustrated story of Covent Garden - the creative heart of Georgian London - from Wolfson Prize-winning author Vic Gatrell SHORT-LISTED FOR THE HESSELL TILTMAN PRIZE 2014In the teeming, disordered, and sexually charged square half-mile centred on London's Covent Garden something extraordinary evolved in the eighteenth century. It was the world's first creative 'Bohemia'. The nation's most significant artists, actors, poets, novelists, and dramatists lived here. From Soho and Leicester Square across Covent Garden's Piazza to Drury Lane, and down from Long Acre to the Strand, they rubbed shoulders with rakes, prostitutes, market people, craftsmen, and shopkeepers. It was an often brutal world full of criminality, poverty and feuds, but also of high spirits, and an intimacy that was as culturally creative as any other in history. Virtually everything that we associate with Georgian culture was produced here.