bohemian culture
Unconventional creative lifestyle
Bohemian culture is a lifestyle and set of values associated with artists, writers, and intellectuals who reject conventional middle-class standards.
It embraces creativity, unconventional living arrangements, casual attitudes toward money, and freedom from social norms: The neighborhood's bohemian culture attracted painters and poets.
The term evokes Left Bank Paris, Greenwich Village, or any enclave where art matters more than respectability. (Capitalized Bohemian culture refers specifically to the Czech region.)
- Beat GenerationFifties literary counterculture movement
- Bloomsbury GroupEdwardian artistic-literary collective
- artist collectivesGroups creating work together
- nonconformityRejection of prevailing norms
- countercultureRejection of mainstream values
free-spirited · coffeehouses · open mic nights · avant-garde · wanderlust · eccentricity · starving artist · anti-materialism · literary salons · communal living · spoken word poetry · DIY ethos · boho chic · Left Bank · Haight-Ashbury · Moulin Rouge · beat poetry · communes
- Coffee HistoryBrazil, Colombia, Ethiopia, Yemen, Parisian cafes
- Paris literatiwriters, poets, authors, novelists, essayists
- Weimar Germanyhyperinflation, Treaty of Versailles, Hindenburg, Ebert, emergency decrees
- Absinthegreen fairy, louche, wormwood, anise, sugar cube
- Venice BeachVenice Beach, Muscle Beach, oceanfront, Pacific Ocean, palm trees
bohemian culturebourgeois culture
Values of the propertied mainstream
conformism · social conservatism · traditionalism · keeping up with the Joneses · philistinism
bohemian culturecorporate culture
Shared workplace values, norms
materialism · careerism · consumerism · rat race · acquisitiveness