Presenting photos and photocopies from Chicago’s ill-forgotten radical nightclub, the Dill Pickle Club, hobo gatherings and 1910s-20s ephemera, Brains, Brilliancy, Bohemia provides a timely look at the origins of American counterculture and working-class art leading up to the Great Depression.
This edition also includes a DVD of the short film, The More Things Stay The Same, a documentary on the life and world of hobo king and prostitute physician, Dr. Ben Reitman.
Largely missing from art history books, the Dill Pickle Club provided a forum for free speech and the meeting place for many of Chicago's most famous authors, intellectuals and radicals of the 1910-30s — including Carl Sandburg, Sherwood Anderson, Floyd Dell, Clarence Darrow, Lucy Parsons, Ralph Chaplin, Ben Hecht, Harriet Monroe and Kenneth Rexroth. Included in the publication are photographed reproductions of letterpress and woodcut handbills, fliers and posters, in addition to reproductions from hobo pulp novels, photos and other ephemera.
