{"product_id":"book-hfxh","title":"Bohemians","description":"The Romantic myth of Bohemia originated in the early nineteenth century as a way of describing the new conditions faced by artists and writers when the previous system of aristocratic patronage collapsed in the wake of the Age of Revolution. Without the patron system, the artist was free to move around, to seek an audience wherever fortune beckoned. This marketing model likening the artist's vagabond career to the \"gypsy\" life helps to explain part of the bohemian myth, but not all of it. Most bohemians have scant interest in commercial gain and are not so itinerant after all, confining their movements to down-market urban neighborhoods where the rent is cheap and the morals are loose.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis \u003ci\u003eVery Short Introduction\u003c\/i\u003e traces the myth of Bohemia through its various fictional manifestations, from Henry Murger's novel \u003ci\u003eScenes of Bohemian Life\u003c\/i\u003e and Giacomo Puccini's opera \u003ci\u003eLa Bohème\u003c\/i\u003e to Aki Kaurismäki's film \u003ci\u003eLa vie de Bohème\u003c\/i\u003e and Jonathan Larson's musical \u003ci\u003eRent\u003c\/i\u003e. It goes on to examine the history of different bohemian communities, including those in the Latin Quarter of Paris and the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York. David Weir also considers the politics of Bohemia and traces the careers of the artists Gustave Courbet and Pablo Picasso and the great \u003ci\u003echanteuses\u003c\/i\u003e Yvette Guilbert, Fréhel, and Edith Piaf in the Montmartre neighborhood of Paris.","brand":"Tantor","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49354261168432,"sku":"BDhfxh","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49354261627184,"sku":"ZEhfxh","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49354261692720,"sku":"ZMhfxh","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/hfxh-Square-cover.jpg?v=1780344056","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-hfxh","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}