Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : modernity and the building of nation / Françoise Forster-Hahn
  • The crisis of modernity, 1887-1902 / Kenneth D. Barkin
  • "Young Germans, not young Greeks and Romans" : art, culture and educational reform in Wilhelmine Germany / Charles E. McClelland
  • From "brown sauce" to "Plein air" : taste and the art market in Germany, 1889-1910 / Robin Lenman
  • Constructing new histories : nationalism and modernity in the display of art / Françoise Forster-Hahn
  • The invention of history : Julius Meier-Graefe, German modernism and the genealogy of genius / Patricia G. Berman
  • Weimar contra Berlin : Harry Graf Kessler and the politics of modernism / Theodore Fiedler
  • The discourses of a bourgeois Utopia, 1904-1908, and the founding of the Werkbund / Mark Jarzombek
  • Urbane dreams and urban realities : some observations on regionalism and architecture in the modern German city / John Zukowsky
  • "Politics is an art" : the cultural politics of Max Liebermann in Wilhelmine Germany / Marion F. Deshmukh
  • The politics of parody : some thoughts on the "modern" in turn-of-the-century Munich / Maria Makela
  • "Work and make it better" : Lovis Corinth, German art, and the peril from abroad / Christopher B. With
  • Max Klinger's Malerei und Zeichung : the critical reception of the prints and their text / Elizabeth Pendelton Streicher
  • The poet's eye for the arts : Rilke views the visual arts around 1900 / Richard W. Pettit
  • Monumental unease : monuments and the making of national identity in Germany / Karen Lang