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Darren Coffield
Darren Coffield is a British artist. He has exhibited at venues ranging from the Courtauld Institute, Somerset House to the Voloshin Museum, Crimea. In the early nineties Coffield worked with Joshua Compston on the formation of Factual Nonsense, the centre of the emerging Young British Artists scene. A book by Coffield about this period in British art, Factual Nonsense: The Art and Death of Joshua Compston, was accompanied by an exhibition curated by Coffield at Paul Stolper Gallery. In 2020 he published Tales from the Colony Room: Soho’s Lost Bohemia. He lives and works in London.
Books by Darren Coffield
Interviews with Darren Coffield
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Bohemian Paris: Picasso, Modigliani, Matisse, and the Birth of Modern Art
by Dan Franck -
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Laughing Torso
by Nina Hamnett -
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David Tennant and the Gargoyle Years
by Michael Luke -
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The Surrender of Silence: A Memoir of Ironfoot Jack, King of the Bohemians
by Jack Rudolph Neave -
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Francis Bacon’s Gilded Gutter Life
by Daniel Farson
The best books on Bohemian Living, recommended by Darren Coffield
The best books on Bohemian Living, recommended by Darren Coffield
The bohemian world of London and Paris in the 20th century was a fabled land, where people could go to get lost, reinvent themselves and live life as they wanted. Poverty, alcoholism and misery were often the frequent travelling companions on this journey but, Darren Coffield argues, these marginalised areas of society allowed for a freedom that is almost unimaginable in our own world. He picks the best books on bohemian living.
