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

Front Matter....Pages I-XVI
Introduction: The Future’s Past—Modernism, Critique, and the Political....Pages 1-13
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Hans Pfitzner and the Anxiety of Nostalgic Modernism....Pages 17-28
Mahler, Rembrandt, and the Dark Side of German Culture....Pages 29-40
Front Matter....Pages 41-41
The Resistance to Modernism in Karl Gjellerup’s Germanernes Lærling (1882)....Pages 43-54
Knut Hamsun’s “White Negro” from Ringen Sluttet (1936)—Or the Politics of Race....Pages 55-65
Eugenic Sterilization and the Role of Science—The Scandinavian Case....Pages 67-78
Front Matter....Pages 79-79
Reactionary Engineers? Technocracy and the Kulturfaktor Technik in Weimar Germany....Pages 81-92
Science, Art, and the Question of the Visible: Rudolf Virchow, Hannah Höch, and “Immediate Visual Perception”....Pages 93-104
Front Matter....Pages 105-105
Imagining the New Berlin: Modernism, Mass Utopia, and the Architectural Avant-Garde....Pages 107-118
Rebuilding Babel: Urban Regeneration in the Modern/Postmodern Age....Pages 119-130
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
Politicizing Painting: The Case of New Objectivity....Pages 133-147
Modernism from Weimar to Hollywood: Expressionism/New Objectivity/Noir?....Pages 149-161
Clement Greenberg and the Postwar Modernist Canon: Minimizing the Role of Germany and Northern Europe....Pages 163-173
Front Matter....Pages 175-175
Framing Sight: Modernism and Nazi Visual Culture....Pages 177-187
A Woman Beside Herself: Art and Its Other in Nazi Movies....Pages 189-199
Front Matter....Pages 201-201
The Stakes of the Political According to Carl Schmitt....Pages 203-212
Sovereignty and Its Discontents....Pages 213-224
Back Matter....Pages 225-252