Breuer's Bohemia: The Architect, His Circle, and Midcentury Houses in New England by Crump, James

Breuer's Bohemia: The Architect, His Circle, and Midcentury Houses in New England

Breuer's Bohemia explores a vibrant period of midcentury modern design and culture as seen through the influential...
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Breuer's Bohemia: The Architect, His Circle, and Midcentury Houses in New England by Crump, James

Breuer's Bohemia: The Architect, His Circle, and Midcentury Houses in New England

$135.90

Breuer's Bohemia: The Architect, His Circle, and Midcentury Houses in New England

$135.90
Author: James Crump
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Breuer's Bohemia explores a vibrant period of midcentury modern design and culture as seen through the influential New England houses designed by Marcel Breuer for his circle of clients and friends.

The iconic twentieth-century architect Marcel Breuer was a prolific designer of residential architecture, which is often overshadowed by his early renown as a Bauhaus furniture maker and his large-scale projects.

Breuer's Bohemia surveys the houses he designed in Connecticut and Massachusetts from the 1950s through the '70s, many of which were commissioned by a few culturally progressive clients - chiefly Rufus and Leslie Stillman and Andrew and Jamie Gagarin - who coalesced around him into a dynamic social circle. Included in this scene were prominent cultural figures such as Alexander Calder, Arthur Miller, Francine du Plessix Gray, Philip Roth, and William Styron, and more, marking a unique intersection of postwar architecture, art, and letters.

The publication of Breuer's Bohemia coincides with the feature-length documentary of the same name by author and filmmaker James Crump, exploring Breuer's explosive residential practice on the East Coast.

Through original research and interviews, the voices of principal characters from Breuer's circle and notable figures from the field of architecture help tell the story of Breuer's collaborations with his friends and clients, breathing new life into the history of the rich cultural atmosphere of which they all played a vital part.

Heavily illustrated with vintage and contemporary photographs as well as rarely seen archival materials, Breuer's Bohemia is a unique glimpse of a twentieth-century milieu that produced an aesthetic, intellectual, and sometimes sybaritic community during a fertile period of American design and culture.



Author: James Crump
Publisher: Monacelli Press
Published: 09/14/2021
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 3.41lbs
Size: 11.28h x 9.10w x 1.08d
ISBN: 9781580935784


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 02/01/2022 pg. 74

About the Author
James Crump is a writer, director, and producer whose films include the documentary Spit Earth: Who Is Jordan Wolfson? (2020); Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco (2018), winner of the Metropolitan Grand Jury prize at the 2017 DOC NYC Film Festival; Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art (2016), which premiered at the New York Film Festival with the Wall Street Journal declaring that it takes its place among the great art documentaries of the past half century; and Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe (2007), which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.

An acclaimed art historian and curator, Crump is also the author, coauthor, and editor of numerous books and has published widely in the fields of modern and contemporary art. His critical texts have appeared in Art in America, Artforum, Archives of American Art Journal for the Smithsonian Museum, and Art Review, among other publications.

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