Sem: Bohemianism

  • UH 300
  • Teacher: Bebe Barefoot-Lloyd
  • Term: spring 2020
  • Credits: 3

We will explore what has come to be known as “Bohemianism” as a lifestyle and a state of mind via theoretical and imaginative texts and films.  In addition, we will study the artistic and cultural movements and phenomena that both inspired and were inspired by these texts.  We will begin with the origins of the term “bohemia” and examine how and why it came to be associated with artists, writers, and musicians.  In addition, we will consider the relationship between “bohemia” and mainstream culture, to include the actual “mainstreaming” of bohemia (oxymoronic, no?)—what I like to call “fauxhemia.”