The shores of Bohemia : a Cape Cod story, 1910-1960 / John Taylor Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, John Taylor, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bohemianism--Massachusetts--Cape Cod--History--20th century.

Bohemianism.

Cape Cod (Mass.)--Biography--Anecdotes.

Cape Cod (Mass.).

Cape Cod (Mass.)--Intellectual life--20th century.

Cape Cod (Mass.)--Social life and customs--20th century.

Arts--Massachusetts--Cape Cod--History--20th century--Anecdotes.

Arts.

Intellectual life.

Manners and customs.

Massachusetts--Cape Cod.

Genre:

Anecdotes.

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

xvii, 343 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.

Summary:

"The history of a generation of artists, writers, activists, and dreamers who created a Bohemian utopia on the windblown shores of Cape Cod"-- Provided by publisher.

Scorning the devastation that industrialization had wrought on the nation's workforce and culture in the early decades of the twentieth century, artists, writers, activists gathered in the streets of Greenwich Village and on the beachfronts of Cape Cod. They began as progressives but soon turned to socialism, then communism. They founded theaters, periodicals, and art schools, and welcomed the wave of talent fleeing Europe in the 1930s. At the end of their era, in the 1960s, as the postwar economy boomed, they took shelter in liberalism when the anticapitalist movement fragmented into other causes. Williams records a great set of shifts in American culture and the ideas and arguments fueled by drink, infidelity, and competition that made for a fifty-year conversation among intellectual leaders and creative revolutionaries as they created some of the great works of the American Century. - adapted from jacket

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I SPRING

1. Arcadia

2. Greenwich Village and Provincetown

3. The 1913 Armory Show

4. The Provincetown Players

5. The Masses

6. The War to End all Wars

7. Reds!

8. The Jazz Age

pt. II SUMMER

9. Bound Brook Island

10. The Popular Front

11. Dodie

12. Country Life

13. World War II

pt. III FALL

14. Tiger Cat

15. The Abstractors

16. The Crimes of Stalin

17. The Lost Generation's Children

18. Provincetown Either Way

pt. IV WINTER

19. Mardi

20. The New, New Bauhaus

21. Joan's Beach

22. New York Jew

23. Eden's End.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-311) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9780374262754

0374262756

OCLC:

1264273632