September 8, 2014
Not Comics: Thomas Nast, Proto-Hipster
This review of Justin Martin's Rebel Souls ties late 19th Century New York tavern-centric salon life to the growth of bohemian culture in the United States. The focus is a specific table run by Henry Clapp Jr. and attended, apparently, by editorial cartoonist Thomas Nast among other New York or New York-visiting artists from a variety of media.
I have no idea what significance the book derives from this. Cultural histories usually have a causality hitch, in that it's hard to draw a direct line from one flourishing of cultural elements to a wider one. But I like the idea of cartooning having at least a bit of a place at the counter-culture table, perhaps literally.
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