" The Old Guard and the Avant-Garde: Modernism in Chicago, 1910-1940 brings together the history and the critical reaction to the new developments in art and design, places them in the context of conservative yet innovative Chicago at the turn of the century, and explores the tensions between tradition and innovation. The individual essays present the best in specialized current research, yet one can clearly understand the impact of modernism on the broader intellectual and cultural life of the city. I eagerly await as ...
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" The Old Guard and the Avant-Garde: Modernism in Chicago, 1910-1940 brings together the history and the critical reaction to the new developments in art and design, places them in the context of conservative yet innovative Chicago at the turn of the century, and explores the tensions between tradition and innovation. The individual essays present the best in specialized current research, yet one can clearly understand the impact of modernism on the broader intellectual and cultural life of the city. I eagerly await as cohesive and thorough an analysis of the subject for New York."--David Sokol, University of Chicago "This is fresh and fascinating research about the ups and downs of modernism in Chicago, a city where art students reportedly once hung Matisse in effigy. Regional studies like this one broaden our understanding of how the art world has worked outside of New York and gives depth to a story we know too narrowly. Applause all the way around."--Wanda M. Corn, Stanford University
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Like New. Like New Inside and Outside. Clean and crisp! Small inscription on 1st page. You will be pleased. Excellent book! ( z1s62C ) Some very minor shelf wear on dust cover. ** Fast Shipping! **
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Like New. Like New Inside and Outside. Clean and crisp! Small inscription on 1st page. You will be pleased. Excellent book! ( z1s62C ) Some very minor shelf wear on dust cover. ** Fast Shipping! **
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Very Good. 1990. Cloth, dj. 4to. xxiv & 280 pp. Illustrated. Moderate shelf wear and scuffing to dust jacket. Altogether a copy in Very Good condition. (Subject: Art History. )
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Very good in very good dust jacket. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Minor corner bumping. xxiv, 284 p. Illustrations (some in color). Chronology. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. This volume, the first to focus on Chicago, tells the story of that city's vitriolic struggle between an 'old guard' who advanced the ideals of traditional ninteenth-century art and an 'avant-garde' of painters, illustrators, photographers and sculptors who espoused the new modernist art from Europe. The result is an illuminating exploration of Chicago's early cultural development with a focus on the struggle that largely defined the course of the city's art and art institutions in the early decades of this century.
