Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

  1.  The Modernist Impulse: Subjectivity, Resistance, Freedom

  2.  Modernism in Context: Notes for a Political Aesthetic

  3.  Experiencing Modernism: A Short History of Expressionist Painting

  4.  The Modernist Spirit: On the Correspondence Between Arnold Schoenberg and Wassily Kandinsky

  5.  Modernism in Motion: F. T. Marinetti and Italian Futurism

  6.  Ecstatic Modernism: The Paintings of Emil Nolde

  7.  Modernism, Surrealism, and the Political Imaginary

  8.  Modernism Changes the World: The Russian Avant-Garde and the Revolution

  9.  Modernists in Power: The Literati and the Bavarian Revolution

10.  Exhibiting Modernism: Paris and Berlin, 1900–1933

11.  The Modernist Adventure: Political Reflections on a Cultural Legacy

Notes

Index