Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Neue Sachlichkeit and Avant-Garde. An Introduction -- I. Neue Sachlichkeit and the Discourse on Modernity -- Challenging the Autonomous Realm of Literature: Nieuwe Zakelijkheid and Poetry in the Dutch Literary Field -- "Yesterday Art Today Reality". The Discourse on Neue Sachlichkeit in i 10 -- Rietveld and Nieuwe Zakelijkheid in Architecture -- Nieuwe Zakelijkheid as Positioning Strategy: The Case of Albert Helman -- II. The International and Intermedial Dimension of Neue Sachlichkeit -- The Appearance and Disappearance of the Term Nieuwe Zakelijkheid in Dutch Modern Architecture -- The Terms Nieuwe Zakelijkheid, Neue Sachlichkeit and Nieuw Realisme in Art Criticism of the Dutch paper De Groene Amsterdammer -- Neue Sachlichkeit, Mass Media and Matters of Musical Style in the 1920s -- "A book such as 'Automobile' is only written once in a lifetime". Ilja Ehrenburg's The life of the automobile as benchmark in the discussion of New Objectivity in Dutch literature -- The Function of Ilja Ehrenburg Concerning the Dutch prose of the Nieuwe Zakelijkheid -- Continuity Through 'Inner Emigration': Neue Sachlichkeit, National Socialism, and Aspects of the Work of Otto Dix 1933-1935 -- III. Neue Sachlichkeit and Avant-Garde -- Concepts of the Subject in the Avant-Garde Movements of the 1910s and Neue Sachlichkeit -- The Reception of Neue Sachlichkeit among Dutch Authors and Critics -- Objectivity and Emotion, the Challenge of the Nieuwe Zakelijkheid: Albert Kuyle As a Test Case -- New Objectivity in the Work of the Russian-German Artist Nikolai Zagrekov / Nikolaus Sagrekow -- Aleksei Gan's Constructivism and its aftermath.