Art & architecture on 1001 afternoons in Chicago

Description:

A book of literary journalism written by Ben Hecht for the Chicago Daily News in the 1920s. The collection of 18 illustrated stories, selected by the book's producer, designer and Hecht biographer Florice Whyte Kovan, expound on Hecht's love for Chicago's built environment, skyscraper architecture and his kinship with the avant garde artists of Chicago and the world, an orientation that influenced his evolving career as a playwright and Hollywood screenwriter.

subjects: Artists,  Arts,  Chicago journalists,  Intellectual life,  Midwestern Literary Rennaissance,  Modernism (aesthetics),  Modernism (art),  Architecture, modern, 20th century,  Cities and towns in art

People: Ben Hecht,  George Grosz (1893-1959),  Herman Rosse,  Stanislaw Szukalski,  Wallace Smith

Places: Chicago,  Chicago (Ill.),  Chicago (Ill.) Middle West,  Illinois

Times: 1921-1922,  20th century,  Roaring 20s