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While browsing the stacks of the Regenstein Library at the University of Chicago some years ago, noted historian Neil Harris made a surprising discovery: a group of nine plainly bound volumes whose unassuming spines bore the name "The Chicagoan". Pulling one down and leafing through its pages, Harris was startled to find it brimming with striking covers, fanciful art, witty cartoons, profiles of local personalities, and a whole range of incisive articles. He quickly realized that he had stumbled upon a Chicago counterpart to the New Yorker that mysteriously had slipped through the cracks of history and memory.Here Harris brings this lost magazine of the Jazz Age back to life. In its own words, the "Chicagoan" claimed to represent 'a cultural, civilized, and vibrant' city 'which needs make no obeisance to Park Avenue, Mayfair, or the Champs-Elysees.' Urbane in aspiration and first published just sixteen months after the 1925 appearance of the "New Yorker", it sought passionately to redeem the Windy City's unhappy reputation for organized crime, political mayhem, and industrial squalor by demonstrating the presence of style and sophistication in the Midwest. Harris' substantial introductory essay here sets the stage, exploring the ambitions, tastes, and prejudices of Chicagoans during the 1920s and '30s. The author then lets the "Chicagoan" speak for itself in lavish full-color segments that reproduce its many elements: from covers, cartoons, and editorials to reviews, features, and even one issue reprinted in its entirety.Recalling a vivid moment in the life of the Second City, the "Chicagoan" is a forgotten treasure, offered here for a whole new age to enjoy.
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Neil Harris is the Preston and Sterling Morton Professor of History and Art History, emeritus, at the University of Chicago. He is the author of, among other books, The Artist in American Society; Humbug: The Art of P. T. Barnum; Cultural Excursions: Marketing Appetites and Cultural Tastes in Modern America; and Chicago Apartments: A Century of Lakefront Luxury.
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Magnificent Volume About a Long Forgotten Magazine
2008/12/4
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The Chicagoan was a magazine that was inspired by the New Yorker and lasted 9 years 1926-1935. Its subsequent downfall from prominence to obscurity was so complete that there are only 2 known complete sets of the magazine. Additionally, all of the artists and writers who toiled for The Chicagoan wound up every bit as obscure as their magazine. Up until the publication of Neil Harris's 400 page book, the very existence of The Chicagoan was unknown even to historians of the Windy City.
Neil Harris has done a masterful job of both recounting the history of this splendid magazine as well as presenting examples of the art and writing that graced its pages. Hopefully, this will prove to be the start of a trend of exploring this magazine's history as well as the history of Jazz Age Chicago.
Neil Harris has done a masterful job of both recounting the history of this splendid magazine as well as presenting examples of the art and writing that graced its pages. Hopefully, this will prove to be the start of a trend of exploring this magazine's history as well as the history of Jazz Age Chicago.
6 人中、6人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
Jazz Age Gem
2008/12/1
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Great graphics--in its day the magazine must have challenged the New Yorker neck-and-neck. Sparkles with the wit and zest of jazz age Chicago--featuring figures of the wanning Chicago Renaissance and the hectic nightlife and cultural scene of the naughty lady by the Lake in the late 1920s and early 1930s. A rescued gem that breathes life into the City's history. Marie J. Kuda
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A treasure trove of information about a lost era in Chicago
2009/1/13
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This book is a treat to read or to just leaf through. The reproductions of the pages of the Chicagoan are crisp and clear. It gives insight into what it might have been like to have lived in Chicago at the time in ways that probably no other book can give. While it can be a 'coffee table book,' it can also provide hours and hours of reading pleasure.
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