Boston Bohemia, 1881-1900: Ralph Adams Cram--Life and Architecture
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| Rating | : | 4.14 (903 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0870239201 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 569 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Five Stars Thank you!. Excellent history! I am very impressed with this book. It is long and detailed but it is chock full of incredibly interesting facts and details of the intertwinings of the gay community, the Anglo-Catholic movement in Boston, architecture and Boston history. I believe this book should be a "cannon" of gay literature and history but it seems to be overlooked. The author's research is incredibly detaile. Gimme a "C!" Gimme a "A!" Gimme a "M!" Gimme a "P!" What's that spell? *C*A*M*P* Bachelier The irony of this camp biography of a turn of the century American gentleman prig is a feather boa and pancake makeup at a Church of the Advent, Beacon Hill, Solemn High Mass. Gossipy "he-IS-gay-storian" Shand-Tucci is at it again.This drag queen drags on about what Cram crammed. Interesting, but so much more could have been said with so much less excess.Shand-Tucci's thesis is that
Engagingly written and brimming with research, facts, anecdotes, and minutiae, this work is most at home in American architecture or East Coast cultural life and history collections.Russell T. . Lib., Provo, Ut.Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. Historian Shand-Tucci's (Built in Boston, 1978) broad cultural analysis delves extensively into Beacon Hill's fin-de-siecle bohemian gay subculture. From Library Journal In the early 20th century, the firm of Cram, Goodhue and Ferguson es
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. 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. The first of two volumes, this study focuses on Cram's early architectural and literary work.