Queens of Bohemia And Other Miss-Fits
Coffield, Darren
Sold by Hodmandod Books, Biggleswade, BED, United Kingdom
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Add to basketSold by Hodmandod Books, Biggleswade, BED, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller since 15 September 2020
Condition: Used - Fine
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketBlack cloth with gold lettering to spine. Octavo. 352 pages. Several b&w photographs within the text; endpapers decorated with drawings (by Coffield) of the various women described in the book. Foreword by Marianne Faithfull. Signed by the author on the title page. Laid in is a promotional postcard. Fine in Fine jacket.
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Our story begins in 1920s London, at a time when women’s rights were surging after the long battle for suffrage and nightclubs emerged as spaces where single women could socialise unchaperoned. This was the age of the dance craze and the gender-bending ‘Flapper’, who inspired the creation of the Gargoyle club, a nocturnal hunting ground for Femmes Fatales.
Meanwhile, London’s Bohemia was ruled by the ‘Queen of Clubs’, Kate Meyrick; the taboo-breaking ‘Tiger Woman’, Betty May; the original ‘Chelsea Girl’, Viva King; the artist, Nina Hamnett; the ‘Euston Road Venus’, Sonia Orwell; and Isabel Rawsthorne, artist, spy, pornographer, model and muse … to name but a few.
Using previously unpublished memoirs and interviews, Queens of Bohemia creates a soundscape of voices that gives the reader a taste of their world, so exotic and yet often wracked with despair. It offers a unique insight into a generation of women for whom ideals of duty and self-sacrifice had been debunked by the horrors of war and whose morality resided in being true to one’s self, as they took their struggle for freedom into the wider world and learned to value their individuality along the way.
DARREN COFFIELD was born in London in 1969. He studied at Goldsmiths College, Camberwell School of Art, and the Slade School of Art in London, where he received his Bachelor of Fine Art in 1993. He has exhibited widely in the company of many leading artists, including Damien Hirst, Howard Hodgkin, Patrick Caulfield and Gilbert and George. In 2014, Darren Coffield was specially selected by the jurors of 100 Painters of Tomorrow as an artist who has made a significant contribution to the painting scene today. He is the author of Tales from the Colony Room: Soho's Lost Bohemia (Unbound, 2021)
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