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Record Nr.

UNINA9910965417303321

Titolo

Legacies of Modernism : Art and Politics in Northern Europe, 1890-1950 / / edited by P. McBride, R. McCormick, M. Zagar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2007

ISBN

9786611361792

9781281361790

1281361798

9780230603189

0230603181

Edizione

[1st ed. 2007.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 252 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Studies in European Culture and History, , 2945-6282

Altri autori (Persone)

McBridePatrizia C

McCormickRichard W. <1951->

ZagarMonika

Disciplina

700.9409034

Soggetti

European literature

Europe - History

History, Modern

Literature, Modern - 20th century

Communication

Culture - Study and teaching

European Literature

European History

Modern History

Twentieth-Century Literature

Media and Communication

Cultural Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.