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Legacies of Modernism : Art and Politics in Northern Europe, 1890-1950 / edited by P. McBride, R. McCormick, M. Zagar.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in European Culture and History, 2945-6282
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- European literature.
- Europe--History.
- Europe.
- History, Modern.
- Literature, Modern--20th century.
- Literature, Modern.
- Communication.
- Culture--Study and teaching.
- Culture.
- European Literature.
- European History.
- Modern History.
- Twentieth-Century Literature.
- Media and Communication.
- Cultural Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- European Literature.
- European History.
- Modern History.
- Twentieth-Century Literature.
- Media and Communication.
- Cultural Studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 252 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2007.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Between 1890 and 1950 modernist art and culture set out to challenge century-old notions of the individual and the community, culture and politics, morality and freedom, placing into question the very foundations of Western civilization. The essays in this volume present a novel assessment of various manifestations of modernism in Germany and Scandinavia by posing the question of its critical and political impact beyond traditional polarities such as right vs. left, illiberalism vs. Enlightenment, apolitical vs. engaged. In drawing on a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, including literary studies, art history, film and visual studies, urban studies, musicology, political theory, and the history of science and technology, the essays in this volume reexamine modernism's bold inquiry into areas such as the relation of art to technology and mass politics, the limits of liberal democracy, the reconceptualization of urban spaces, and the realignment of traditional art forms following the rise of new media such as film. The volume's contributors share a belief in the timeliness of modernism's critical impulse for a contemporary age confronted with ethical and political dilemmas that the modernists first articulated and to which they attempted to respond.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Notes on the Contributors; Introduction: The Future's Past-Modernism, Critique, and the Political; Section I: High, Low, and Other: The Politics of Music; Section II: Modernism/Antimodernism, Race and Eugenics in Scandinavia; Section III: Science, Technology, and German Modernism; Section IV: Architecture and Urban Planning in Weimar Modernity; Section V: The Politics of Visual Culture: Weimar, Exile, and Postwar; Section VI: The Politics of Visual Culture in the Third Reich; Section VII: Modernist Politics Now: Critiques of Liberalism; Works Cited; Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611361792
- 9781281361790
- 1281361798
- 9780230603189
- 0230603181
- OCLC:
- 314774216
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