Chicago Renaissance: Literature and Art in the Midwest Metropolis by Olson, Liesl

Chicago Renaissance: Literature and Art in the Midwest Metropolis

A fascinating history of Chicago's innovative and invaluable contributions to American literature and art from the late...
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Author: Liesl Olson
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Chicago Renaissance: Literature and Art in the Midwest Metropolis by Olson, Liesl

Chicago Renaissance: Literature and Art in the Midwest Metropolis

$125.70

Chicago Renaissance: Literature and Art in the Midwest Metropolis

$125.70
Author: Liesl Olson
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
A fascinating history of Chicago's innovative and invaluable contributions to American literature and art from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century

This remarkable cultural history celebrates the great Midwestern city of Chicago for its centrality to the modernist movement. Author Liesl Olson traces Chicago's cultural development from the 1893 World's Fair through mid-century, illuminating how Chicago writers revolutionized literary forms during the first half of the twentieth century, a period of sweeping aesthetic transformations all over the world. From Harriet Monroe, Carl Sandburg, and Ernest Hemingway to Richard Wright and Gwendolyn Brooks, Olson's enthralling study bridges the gap between two distinct and equally vital Chicago-based artistic "renaissance" moments: the primarily white renaissance of the early teens, and the creative ferment of Bronzeville. Stories of the famous and iconoclastic are interwoven with accounts of lesser-known yet influential figures in Chicago, many of whom were women. Olson argues for the importance of Chicago's editors, bookstore owners, tastemakers, and ordinary citizens who helped nurture Chicago's unique culture of artistic experimentation.

Cover art by Lincoln Schatz

Author: Liesl Olson
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 08/22/2017
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.40w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780300203684


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2017 pg. 75
Booklist 09/01/2017 pg. 29

About the Author
Liesl Olson is director of Chicago studies at the Newberry Library. She is the author of Modernism and the Ordinary and many essays about twentieth-century writers and artists.

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