| FB-55474-11 | Research Programs: Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars | Liesl Marie Olson | Chicago Makes Modernism | 1/1/2011 - 12/31/2011 | $50,400.00 | Liesl | Marie | Olson | | | | Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Chicago | IL | 60610-3305 | USA | 2010 | Literature, General | Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars | Research Programs | 50400 | 0 | 50400 | 0 |
My book places Chicago at the center of a new modernist geography. Based upon archival research, my book focuses on writers, artists, institutions, and cultural advocates during the early twentieth century when Chicago was a center for the production of modernist art and literature. I examine key publications launched in Chicago like Harriet Monroe's POETRY magazine and Margaret Anderson's LITTLE REVIEW and I also take account of equally important yet overlooked figures, many of them women, who helped expose modernism to a wide public audience. These figures (among many) include Alice Roullier, a curator who coolly negotiated radical and challenging exhibits, and Fanny Butcher, the longtime literary editor of the Chicago Tribune. I consider why Chicago's "middlebrow" readers embraced the most experimental writers and artists of the era. I show how Chicago has always maximized connections between art and industry, becoming a city where lines of track merged to meet and make modernism. |
| PT-50029-05 | Preservation and Access: Save America's Treasures | Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Conserving and Rehousing the Carl Sandburg Collection | 1/1/2005 - 12/31/2006 | $239,000.00 | Thomas | | Teper | | | | Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Champaign | IL | 61801-3620 | USA | 2005 | U.S. History | Save America's Treasures | Preservation and Access | 239000 | 0 | 239000 | 0 | No project description available |
| RC-*1717-81 | Preservation and Access: Reference Materials - Access | Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Carl Sandburg Collection Development Project | 6/1/1981 - 5/31/1983 | $75,420.00 | John | | Hoffman | | | | Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Champaign | IL | 61801-3620 | USA | 1981 | American Literature | Reference Materials - Access | Preservation and Access | 70420 | 5000 | 70420 | 5000 | To support processing of newly acquired materials, locating important additional materials, and conducting oral history interviews for the Carl Sandburg Collection at the University of Illinois Library, the principal depository for the library and personal papers of the American poet, historian, folklorist. |