Description: Provincial Modernity : Local Culture & Liberal Politics in Fin-De-Siecle Hamburg, Hardcover by Jenkins, Jennifer, ISBN 0801440254, ISBN-13 9780801440250, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US
A history of the making of public culture in Imperial Germany, Provincial Modernity challenges traditional accounts of the rise and fall of German liberalism and the meaning given to the "cultural work" of the German middle classes. With an interdisciplinary approach that ranges from political history to modernist art and architecture, Jennifer Jenkins explores the role that local tradition, memory, history, culture, and environment played in nineteenth-century conceptions of citizenship and community in Hamburg. Eighteen black-and-white illustrations and one color illustration enhance her portrait of the city in question.
Drawing on a wide range of sources, Jenkins focuses on the citys cultural institutions, particularly the Hamburg Art Museum and its director, Alfred Lichtwark, who inspired a citywide movement of political and cultural reform. Lichtwark, who became one of Imperial Germanys most important cultural politicians, worked with the citys elites and its civic associations, both middle and working class. Together, they promoted "aesthetic education" in the interest of forging a liberal society.
Lichtwark and the movement he inspired saw the educated middle classes as the custodians of national culture, believed education and civic morality to be vehicles for the creation of modern citizens, and argued that vital regional identities were essential to the making of a liberal national community. In so doing, they defined and promoted a distinctive northern German form of modernist culture in art and architecture.
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Book Title: Provincial Modernity : Local Culture and Liberal Politics in Fin-De-Siècle Hamburg
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication Year: 2002
Item Height: 1 in
Topic: History / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945), Europe / Germany, Sociology / Urban
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Art, Social Science, History
Item Weight: 32.1 Oz
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Jennifer Jenkins
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
