Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction 1
5. PART ONE: EARLY AVANT-GARDE MODERNISM
6. 1. Intellectuals, Commodity Culture, and Religions of Art in the Nineteenth Century 27
7. 2. F. T. Marinetti 77
8. 3. Guillaume Apollinaire 110
9. 4. Wassily Kandinsky 143
10. PART TWO: VARIETIES OF INTERWAR MODERNISM
11. 5. The Rise and Fall of Design Modernism Bauhaus, De Stijl, and Purism 181
12. 6. Futurism and Its Modernist Rivals in Fascist Italy 227
13. 7. André Breton’s Surrealism 264
14. 8. The Critical Modernism of Herbert Read 305
15. Conclusion 341
16. Notes 355
17. Index 427