The Old Guard and the Avant-Garde
Subtitle: Modernism in Chicago, 1910-1940
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: December 18, 1990
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780226682846
Subjects: Cultural studies; History Of Art / Art & Design Styles; First World War, 1914-1918; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Second World War, 1939-1945; c 1900 - c 1914; 20th Century Art; Art; Art & Art Instruction; History: American; North America; USA; History - General; Art / History / General; 20th century; Art, American; Chicago; Illinois; Modernism (Art)
First sentence: For a city that is probably one of the best analyzed, most carefully described, and incessantly invoked in the western world, Chicago's art history remains a closely guarded secret.