Preservation, Radicalism, and the Avant-Garde Canon

PART I: STAGING THE AVANT-GARDES



1. Exquisite Encounters with the Avant-Gardes; Rebecca Ferreboeuf, Fiona Noble, Tara Plunkett



2. Telling the Telling of the Tale: A Dialogue; James Harding and Mike Sell



PART II: CURATING THE AVANT-GARDES



3. Curating Problems: Expanded Cinema; Julian Ross



4. An Active Encounter: Tamás St. Turba's Czechoslovakia Radio1968 and Avant-Garde Objects in Contemporary Contexts; Ciara Hickey



PART III: ON THE MARGINS OF THE AVANT-GARDES



5. Céline Arnauld's Poèmes à Claires-Voies (Openwork Poems); Ruth Hemus



6. Firmin Gémier, the Avant-Garde Populist; Kimberly Jannarone



7. Remedios Varo's Feminine, Spiritual Quest; Ricki O'Rawe



PART IV: REREADING THE AVANT-GARDES



8. Reframing the Void: Duchamp's Readymade as a Lacanian Object; Robert Kilroy



9. Preserving Life Force: Antonin Artaud and Zhuangzi on the Body; Xiaofan Amy Li



10. Lee Miller's Dialogues with the Avant-Garde; Patricia Allmer



PART V: CATEGORIZING THE AVANT-GARDES



11. Hearing Tsang Tsou Choi: Marginalia, Madness and a Hong Kong Avant Garde; Simon Soon



12. Acting in Front of the Camera: Avant-Garde Approaches to Staged Photography; Przemyslaw Strozek



13. Films for the Drawer: Post-War Czech Surrealism and the Impossible Encounter with Cinema; Jonathan Owen



PART VI: CLOSING THE CURTAIN ON THE AVANT-GARDES?



Epilogue: The Tale is Told?; John McCulloch