Boston Bohemia, 1881-1900: Ralph Adams Cram: Life and Architecture (Volume 1)
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| Rating | : | 4.83 (922 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1558490612 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 592 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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The first of two volumes, this study focuses on Cram's early architectural and literary work.. The first major biography of Ralph Adams Cram (1863-1942), America's greatest church architect, this book offers a portrait of America's earliest avant garde, Boston's little known fin-de-siecle bohemia, in which Cram figured as leader, editor, art critic, poet, and designer. Disclosing for the first time the pivotal contribution of Boston's emerging gay subculture to New England's intellectual and cultural history, Douglass Shand-Tucci explores the relationship between artistic creativity and sexual orientation and between homosexuality and High Church Anglicanism
Brilliant, historic, and profoundly relevant to scholarship of the first order. A brilliant and expansive account of Ralph Adams Cram and the fascinating milieu in which he lived, one that charts new waters and challenges old perceptions of historical truth. (Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review)For what it adds to our knowledge of American gay history and what it illustrates about how gay history can be done, we can call Boston Bohemia the book of the season. (Peter J. (Christopher Lydon, host of "The Connection," National Public Radio)Gradually reveals something very interesting: a part of the history of Boston a complex, vivacious little community, caught in the historical moment that made it possible. (Windy
RenssArc1A very useful book, which provides a great deal of insight RenssArc14 A very useful book, which provides a great deal of insight into the world of Anglo-Catholicism and LGBT culture in the late 19th century. This volume, admittedly, does rather subvert the strict architectural history of Cram's early works into the larger narrative, but that is to be expected. In consequence, I remain uncertain as to whether to catal. said A very useful book, which provides a great deal of insight. A very useful book, which provides a great deal of insight into the world of Anglo-Catholicism and LGBT culture in the late 19th century. This volume, admittedly, does rather subvert the strict architectural history of Cram's early works into the larger narrative, but that is to be expected. In consequence, I remain uncertain as to whether to catal. "A brilliant cultural history" according to othoniaboys. News websites have been recently featuring photos of a vandalized, ruined church in Detroit. I was just at the point in this book where Shand-Tucci is talking about Cram's architectural efforts in Detroit when I saw the news photos. I just know that this is one of Cram's churches! I was rather overwhelmed by the size and weight of this book, and pe. I grew up with Ralph Adams Cram and this is a great introduction to the artist and his era. Lockett F. Ballard John Nicholas Brown blessed St. George's School in Newport, RI with one of the great examples of Cram's gothic revival chapels. Evening services every night in that glorious soaring space and serving as an acolyte many Sunday's in the beautiful chanel drew me to this exceptionally well written history of Cram and his early life, the artistic circle
He is currently working on a biography of nineteenth-century patron of the arts Isabella Stewart Gardner.. Douglass Shand-Tucci is a historian widely known for his work in New England studies and American architecture