The avant-garde is popular (again) / "Not reactionary, just late" : the case for Ariano Suassuna as Brazilian modernist / This impossible Toyen / Huidobro, Cagliostro : demiurge as mage conjuring a metaphor for the avant-garde / Revisiting the vanguard : Duchamp in Buenos Aires / Duende and modernism : Hart Crane's and Federico García Lorca's variations on rhythm and sound / A revolution of shadows : culture and representation in early-twentieth-century Mexico / Giménez Caballero's fractured fairy tale : "El redentor mal parido" (1926) / "A new dictionary of gestures" : Chaplin's "The rink" and Ricciotto Canudo's "Skating rink" / A quick read(ies) : speed and formula in Bob Brown's Pulp fiction and avant-garde machines / Reading Freire in London : Jo Spence's photographs between popular and avant-garde / Touching pasts "In the shadow of no towers" : 9/11 and Art Spiegelman's comix of memory / From avant-garde to para-garde : "The truth about Marika" / Franciszka Themerson's "Ubu comic strip" : autography, caricature, and the avant garde / In search of a people's art : the divergent positions of Jorge Oteiza and David Alfaro Siqueiros / Venezuelan avant-garde : María Calcaño's erotic poetry / Popular anthropology : dance, race, and Katherine Dunham / Tom Zé's unsong and the fate of the Tropicália movement