The modernist impulse : subjectivity, resistance, freedom -- Modernism in context : notes for a political aesthetic -- Experiencing modernism : a short history of expressionist painting -- The modernist spirit : on the correspondence between Arnold Schoenberg and Wassily Kandinsky -- Modernism in motion : F.T. Marinetti and Italian futurism -- Ecstatic modernism : the paintings of Emil Nolde -- Modernism, surrealism, and the political imaginary -- Modernism changes the world : the Russian avant-garde and the revolution -- Modernists in power : the literati and the Bavarian revolution -- Exhibiting modernism : Paris and Berlin, 1900-1933 -- The modernist adventure : political reflections on a cultural legacy.