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Title The Old guard and the avant-garde : modernism in Chicago, 1910-1940 / edited by Sue Ann Prince
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1990

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Description xxiv, 280 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Contents "In the highest efficiency" : art training at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago / Charlotte Moser -- From the Armory Show to the century of progress : the Art Institute assimilates modernism / Richard R. Brettell and Sue Ann Prince
The Chicago setting / Neil Harris -- "A modest young man with theories" : Arthur Dove and Chicago, 1912 / Ann Lee Morgan -- Lorado Taft, the Ferguson Fund, and the advent of modernism / Allen Weller -- Modernism and Chicago art : 1910-1940 / Susan S. Weininger -- Declarations of independents : Chicago's alternative art groups of the 1920s / Paul Kruty -- "Of the which and why of Daub and Smear" : Chicago critics take on modernism / Sue Ann Prince -- Modernism and design in Chicago / Lloyd C. Engelbrecht -- The Little review : early years and avant-garde ideas / Susan Noyes Platt -- The Katherine Kuh Gallery : an informal portrait / Avis Berman -- Traditions and trends : taste patterns in Chicago collecting / Stefan Germer
Notes '... edited collection of the proceedings of a 1988 symposium ... organized by the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, and co-sponsored by the Art Institute of Chicago' -- t.p. verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-272) and index
Subject Art, American -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 20th century.
Art, American -- Illinois -- Chicago.
Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Illinois -- Chicago.
Modernism (Art) -- Illinois -- Chicago.
Author Prince, Sue Ann.
LC no. 90035236
ISBN 0226682846 (alk. paper)