Contents -- Preface -- I. Theorising the Avant-Garde -- From Collage to the Multiple. On the Genealogy of Avant-Garde and Neo-Avant-Garde -- Wilhelm Worringer and the Historical Avant-Garde -- On the Historiographic Distinction between Historical and Neo-Avant-Garde -- II. Reviewing the Autonomy of Art -- Abstraction, Sublation and the Avant-Garde: The Case of De Stijl -- Sameness and Difference: Duchamp's Editioned Readymades and the Neo-Avant-Garde -- Paint it Black: Ad Reinhardt's Paradoxical Avant-Gardism -- III. On the Alchemy of the Word -- Verbal Chemistry and Concrete Poetry -- How the Letters Learnt to Dance: On Language Dissection in Dadaist, Concrete and Digital Poetry -- American Language Poetry and the Definition of the Avant-Garde -- IV. Body Arts -- From Futurism to Neo-Futurism: Continuities and New Departures in Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Performance -- Actor or Puppet: The Body in the Theatres of the Avant-Garde -- Fragmentation of the Body in Spanish Surrealism -- V. The Vanguard in Cinema and Architecture -- The Surface of Illusion: Avant-Garde Apperception and Antecedence in Structural/Materialist Film -- What Avant-Garde? -- The Limits of "Non-Plan": Architecture and the Avant-Garde -- VI. Crossing the Genres -- Montage in the Arts: A Reassessment -- Means and Metaphors of Change: Technology and the Danish Avant-Garde of the 1960s -- Literature under the Impact of Film: On Dutch Author-Critics of the Avant-Garde and Neo-Avant-Garde -- List of Illustrations -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.