Boston Bohemia, 1881-1900: Ralph Adams Cram: Life and Architecture (Volume 1)

Boston Bohemia, 1881-1900: Ralph Adams Cram: Life and Architecture (Volume 1) by Shand-Tucci, Douglass. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781558490611.

The first major biography of Ralph Adams Cram (1863-1942), Americas greatest church architect, this book offers a portrait of Americas earliest avant garde, Bostons little known fin-de-siecle bohemia, in which Cram figured as leader, editor, art critic, poet, and designer. Disclosing for the first time the pivotal contribution of Bostons emerging gay subculture to New Englands intellectual and cultural history, Douglass Shand-Tucci explores the relationship between artistic creativity and sexual orientation and between homosexuality and High Church Anglicanism. The first of two volumes, this study focuses on Crams early architectural and literary work.