Magazines and Modern Identities

Global Cultures of the Illustrated Press, 1880–1945

Tim Satterthwaite, Andrew Thacker, Tim Satterthwaite, Andrew Thacker

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781350278639
• eBook ISBN: 9781350278653
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: History of Modern Art

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, ideals of technological progress and mass consumerism shaped the print cultures of countries across the globe. Magazines in Europe, the USA, Latin America, and Asia inflected a shared internationalism and technological optimism. But there were equally powerful countervailing influences, of patriotic or insurgent nationalism, and of traditionalism, that promoted cultural differentiation. In their editorials, images, and advertisements magazines embodied the tensions between these domestic imperatives and the forces of global modernity. Magazines and Modern Identities explores how these tensions played out in the magazine cultures of ten different countries, describing how publications drew on, resisted, and informed the ideals and visual forms of global modernism. Chapters take in the magazines of Australia, Europe and North America, as well as China, The Soviet Turkic states, and Mexico. With contributions from leading international scholars, the book considers the pioneering developments in European and North American periodicals in the modernist period, whilst expanding the field of enquiry to take in the vibrant magazine cultures of east Asia and Latin America. The construction of these magazines' modern ideals was a complex, dialectical process: in dialogue with international modernism, but equally responsive to their local cultures, and the beliefs and expectations of their readers. Magazines and Modern Identities captures the diversity of these ideals, in periodicals that both embraced and criticised the globalised culture of the technological era.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: ‘The Rapid Rhythm of Modern Life’
• Part I Modern timesMagazines in the USA at the turn of the twentieth century
• 1 ‘A Monthly Album of Crazy Fancies’?: The Arena Magazine, Alternative Modernities and US Radical Print Culture (1889–1909)
• 2 ‘The Young Man of To-Day is Not the Young Man of Fifty Years Ago’: Themes of Masculinity as Pictured in Popular American Periodical Cover Art, 1830–1920
• Part II The age of extremesEuropean magazines of the interwar decades
• 3 Spearheading the Iconic Turn: German Illustrated Magazines in the Interwar Period
• 4 The Left-wing Illustrated Press in the German Reich
• 5 Acrobatics of the Printed Page: The Cosmopolitanism of Rizzoli’s Periodicals
• 6 Visual Modernism and its Others in VU
• 7 ‘The Greater Britain of Fascism’: Politics, Propaganda and Photography in Action (1936–40)
• Part III Transnational modernitiesCulture and lifestyle magazines in Canada and Australia
• 8 Memories and Promises: Australian Modernism and National Identities in Home During the 1930s
• 9 Seeing the World and One’s Place Within It: Australian Quality Magazines and the Asia-Pacific in the 1920s and 1930s
• 10 To be or Not to be Modern: The Paradox of Modernity in the French-Canadian Magazine La Revue moderne During the 1930s
• 11 Magazine Digest, Canadian Invader?
• Part IV Future statesChinese, Soviet Turkic and Mexican magazines
• 12 Global Magazine Culture and Modern Chinese Identities
• 13 Photographic Portraits of Leaders of the 1911 Revolution: The Promise of Historical Rupture in the Chinese Republican Press
• 14 Publishing the Nation: Periodicals and Nation-Building in Soviet Turkic Communities, 1921–37
• 15 Female Identities and Translocal Networks in Mexican Folkways
• Afterword
• Bibliography
• Index
• Plates
• Copyright