Germany's Other Modernism: The Jena Paradigm, by Dr. Meike G. Werner HARDBACK

Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Germany's Other ModernismThe Jena Paradigm, 1900-1914\nAuthor(s): Meike G. Werner, Stephen D. Dowden\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United States\nImprint: Camden House Inc\nISBN-13: 9781640141391, 978-1640141391\nSynopsis\nDemonstrates, contrary to conventional wisdom, that European modernism developed not only in the great metropolitan centers, but also in provincial cities such as Jena.\n\nThe conventional wisdom is that the cultural sea change that was European modernism arose in urban centers like Berlin, Paris, Munich, and Vienna. Meike G. Werner's book, now in English translation, is a study of modernism in the provinces. Taking the small provincial city of Jena as a paradigmatic case, it re-creates the very different social and intellectual framework in which modernist experimentation occurred beyond the metropolitan centers. Invented traditions, social and spatial \""liminality,\"" and new ideas of social and aesthetic transformation combined in Jena t.