Legacies of Modernism: Art and Politics in Northern Europe, 1890-1950

Introduction: The Future's Past: Modernism, Critique, and the Political; P.C.McBride PART I: HIGH, LOW, AND OTHER: THE POLITICS OF MUSIC Hans Pfitzner and the Anxiety of Nostalgic Modernism; M.A.Weiner Gustav Mahler Visits Amsterdam; C.Niekerk PART II: MODERNISM/ANTIMODERNISM, RACE AND EUGENICS IN SCANDINAVIA The Resistance to Modernism in Karl Gjellerup's Germanernes Lærling (1882); P.Houe Knut Hamsun's "White Negro" from Ringen Sluttet (1936) or the Politics of Race; M.Zagar Eugenics and the Role of Science: The Scandinavian Case; N.Roll-Hansen PART III: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND GERMAN MODERNISM Reactionary Engineers? Technocracy and the Kulturfaktor Technik in Weimar; A.Michel The Uncultured Eye: Developments in the Life Sciences in the Context of German Modernisms; T.O.Haakenson PART IV: ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN PLANNING IN WEIMAR MODERNITY Imagining the New Berlin: Modernism, Mass Utopia, and the Architectural Avant-garde; S.Hake Re-Building Babel: Urban Regeneration in the Modern/Postmodern Age; J.Ward PART V: THE POLITICS OF VISUAL CULTURE: WEIMAR, EXILE, AND POSTWAR Politicizing Painting: The Case of New Objectivity; M.Makela Modernism from Weimar to Hollywood: Expressionism/New Objectivity/Noir?; R.W.McCormick Clement Greenberg and the Postwar Modernist Canon: Minimizing the Role of Germany and Northern Europe; M.Rohn PART VI: THE POLITICS OF VISUAL CULTURE IN THE THIRD REICH Framing Sight: Modernism and Nazi Visual Culture; L.Koepnick A Woman Beside Herself: Art and its Other in Nazi Movies; LSchulte-Sasse PART VII: MODERNIST POLITICS NOW: CRITIQUES OF LIBERALISM The Stakes of the Political According to Carl Schmitt; C.Mouffe Sovereignty and Its Discontents; W.Rasch