The first bohemians life and art in London's golden age
The colourful, salacious and sumptuously illustrated story of Covent Garden - the creative heart of Georgian London. In the teeming, disordered, and sexually charged square half-mile centred on London's Covent Garden something extraordinary evolved in the 18th century. It was the world's f...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Allen Lane
2013
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | The colourful, salacious and sumptuously illustrated story of Covent Garden - the creative heart of Georgian London. In the teeming, disordered, and sexually charged square half-mile centred 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 was as culturally creative as any other in history. Virtually everything that we associate with Georgian culture was produced here. 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 |
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| Beschreibung: | XXVI, 484 S., [8] Bl. Ill., Kt. 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781846146770 978-1-84614-677-0 1846146771 1-84614-677-1 |