Magazines and Modern Identities

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 Identitiescaptures the diversity of these ideals, in periodicals that both embraced and criticised the globalised culture of the technological era.

Tim Satterthwaite lectures on 20th-century art and design at the University of Brighton and Middlesex University, UK. He is the author of Modernist Magazines and the Social Ideal (2020), and co-directed the Future States conference on the history of magazines with Andrew Thacker in 2020 (www.futurestates.org). Andrew Thacker is Professor of 20th-Century Literature at Nottingham Trent University, UK and co-director of its Periodicals and Print Culture Research Group. He has written or edited many books on modernism, including three volumes of The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines (2009-13).

List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: 'The Rapid Rhythm of Modern Life', Andrew Thacker (Nottingham Trent University, UK) and Tim Satterthwaite (University of Brighton, UK) Part I: Modern Times: Magazines in the USA at the turn of the 20th century 1. "A Monthly Album of Crazy Fancies"?: The Arena magazine, alternative modernities and US radical print culture (1889-1909), Jean-Louis Marin-Lamellet (Université Savoie-Mont Blanc, France) 2. "The Young Man of To-Day is not the Young Man of Fifty Years Ago": The changing image of United States men in the cover art of popular periodicals, 1880-1920, Richard Junger (Western Michigan University, USA) Part II: The Age of Extremes: European magazines of the interwar decades 3. Left-wing Answers to the Bourgeois Illustrated Press in the German Reich, Konrad Dussel (University of Mannheim, Germany) 4. Spearheading the Iconic Turn: German Illustrated Magazines in the Interwar Period, Patrick Rössler (University of Erfurt, Germany) 5. Acrobatics of the Printed Page: The Cosmopolitanism of Rizzoli's Periodicals, Maria Antonella Pelizzari (Hunter College, CUNY, USA) 6. Visual Modernism and its Others in VU, Laura Truxa (EHESS, Paris, France) 7. 'The Greater Britain of Fascism': Politics, Propaganda and Photography in Action (1936-40), Emma West (University of Birmingham, UK) Part III: Transnational Modernities: Culture and lifestyle magazines in Canada and Australia 8. Memories and Promises: Australian Modernism and National Identities in Home During the 1930s, Melissa Miles (Monash University, Australia) and Geraldine Fela (Macquarie University, Australia) 9. Seeing the World and One's Place Within It: Australian Quality Magazines and the Asia-Pacific in the 1920s and 1930s, Susann Liebich (Univ of Heidelberg) and Victoria Kuttainen (James Cook University, Australia) 10. To be or Not to be Modern: The paradox of Modernity in the French-Canadian Magazine La Revue moderne During the 1930s, Adrien Rannaud (University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada) 11. Magazine Digest, Canadian Invader?, Jaleen Grove (Rhode Island School of Design, USA) Part IV: Future States: Chinese, Soviet Turkic, and Mexican magazines 12. Global Magazine Culture and Modern Chinese Identities, Michel Hockx (University of Notre Dame, France) and Liying Sun (University of Iowa, USA) 13. Photographic Portraits of Leaders of the 1911 Revolution: The Promise of Historical Rupture in the Chinese Republican Press, Giulia Pra Floriani (Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies, Germany) 14. Publishing the Nation: Periodicals and Nation-Building in Soviet Turkic Communities, 1921-1937 Michael Erdman (British Library, UK) 15. Female Identities and Translocal Networks in Mexican Folkways, Claudia Cedeño Báez (University of Tübingen, Germany) Bibliography Index