Preservation, Radicalism, and the Avant-Garde Canon

<p>PART I: STAGING THE AVANT-GARDES<br>1. Exquisite Encounters with the Avant-Gardes; Rebecca Ferreboeuf, Fiona Noble, Tara Plunkett<br>2. Telling the Telling of the Tale: A Dialogue; James Harding and Mike Sell<br>PART II: CURATING THE AVANT-GARDES<br>3. Curating Problems: Expanded Cinema; Julian Ross<br>4. An Active Encounter: Tamás St. Turba's Czechoslovakia Radio1968 and Avant-Garde Objects in Contemporary Contexts; Ciara Hickey<br>PART III: ON THE MARGINS OF THE AVANT-GARDES<br>5. Céline Arnauld's Poèmes à Claires-Voies (Openwork Poems); Ruth Hemus <br>6. Firmin Gémier, the Avant-Garde Populist; Kimberly Jannarone<br>7. Remedios Varo's Feminine, Spiritual Quest; Ricki O'Rawe<br>PART IV: REREADING THE AVANT-GARDES<br>8. Reframing the Void: Duchamp's Readymade as a Lacanian Object; Robert Kilroy<br>9. Preserving Life Force: Antonin Artaud and Zhuangzi on the Body; Xiaofan Amy Li<br>10. Lee Miller's Dialogues with the Avant-Garde; Patricia Allmer<br>PART V: CATEGORIZING THE AVANT-GARDES<br>11. Hearing Tsang Tsou Choi: Marginalia, Madness and a Hong Kong Avant Garde; Simon Soon<br>12. Acting in Front of the Camera: Avant-Garde Approaches to Staged Photography; Przemyslaw Strozek<br>13. Films for the Drawer: Post-War Czech Surrealism and the Impossible Encounter with Cinema; Jonathan Owen<br>PART VI: CLOSING THE CURTAIN ON THE AVANT-GARDES?<br>Epilogue: The Tale is Told?; John McCulloch<br></p>