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"Unless we document the lives of those who came before us, they will forever be forgotten." My Bohemian Heritage highlights two families who contributed greatly to the art and musical culture of Chicago in the early 1900s. Ms. Vasak first focuses on AV Cerny, her grandfather, who founded the first Bohemian Conservatory of Music in Chicago. His father, Jan, was a violinist who owned the Prague Orchestra. AV Cerny was an exceptional teacher and educated...
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"A field guide to scenesters, trend-hoppers, and other cutting-edge species you've like, probably never heard of. They're pretty obscure. An illustrated pocket guide to the hip characters populating "cool neighborhoods" across America, Hipster Animals helps readers identify these urban wildlife in their natural habitats. Including details on the creatures' identifying characteristics, diets, mating behavior, and calls, this parody reference guide...
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Explores the unique structural and interior designs that have put California's ultra-chic Silver Lake neighborhood at the forefront of a new style phenomenon. The country's most renowned modernist architects, Barbara Bestor has fully embraced and perfected Silver Lake's "bohemian modern" style: a practical philosophy that is Californian in origin.
67) Gypset living
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Gypset volume 3
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In her third book for Assouline, Julia Chaplin explores the living spaces of gypsy jet setters around the world, from Hydra in Greece to the Guéthary in France; from Cuixmala, Mexico, to Paia, Hawaii; and beyond to the Indonesian isles. Through stunning photography and first-person stories, Gypset Living opens the door to the fascinating and dazzling homes and haunts of the bohemian artists, designers, and bons vivants known as the gypset.
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"...I am a syncopator, a jazzman. I mark time by being off beat. My beats make the weak ones strong and the strong ones weak." With those words, the novel's main character, George Nepras, son of Czech immigrants and living a hard life in blue collar early twentieth-century Chicago, spins a tale of his life in jazz and his soul's redemption through it. Haunting the speakeasies of the Raring Twenties, George studies early jazz great like King Olive...
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"In the bohemian and brilliant Montparnasse of the 1920s, Kiki managed to escape poverty to become one of the most charismatic figures of the avant-garde years between the wars. Partner to Man Ray, whose most legendary photos her inspired, she would be immortalized by Kisling, Foujita, Per Krohg, Calder, Utrillo, and Leger."p.[4] of cover.
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La extraordinaria historia de una mujer, la del cuadro que la inmortalizó y la de una época, la bohemia parisina de finales del siglo XIX, tan bella como extrema en sus contrastes. Barcelona, 1888. El joven León Carbó no responde a las expectativas de su padre de iniciarse en el negocio familiar. Prefiere la pintura, la noche, los burdeles y las tabernas. Su relación con un grupo anarquista lo pone en peligro y sus padres lo envían a París,...
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"'Hysterically droll, touching, elegant, and wise--a coming-of-age story from someone who possibly came of age before her parents' (Patricia Marx, New Yorker writer and bestselling author), Trying to Float is a seventeen-year-old's darkly funny, big-hearted memoir about growing up in New York City's legendary Chelsea Hotel. New York's Chelsea Hotel may no longer be home to its most famous denizens--Andy Warhol, Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith, to name...
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