Foreword
JOLANTA RUDZKA-HABISIAK
The Department of Art History at the University of Łódź and the research into the avant-garde movement
PIOTR GRYGLEWSKI
Subversive artistic strategies of the avant-garde and the crisis of modern experience
IWONA LORENC
Avant-garde against avant-garde
RYSZARD KLUSZCZYŃSKI
What the avant-garde stands for today
ŁUKASZ GUZEK
The avant-garde: art as theory
GRZEGORZ SZTABIŃSKI
Las Meninas – Interpretation narratives throughout centuries
SIDEY MYOO
The spirituality of art after Kandinsky
MARIA POPCZYK
The avant-garde as a movement towards the present
MAJA PIOTROWSKA
Adorno and practically useless art, or autonomy instead of avant-garde
RAFAŁ CZEKAJ
Transit Monumental – The way of Independence. Aesthetics in the identity projects of late modernity
TOMASZ SZCZEPANEK
Fashion as the Other of art. The position of clothing design in the avant-garde art and in the contemporary era
MAGDALENA SAMBORSKA
Avant-gardists and primitivism
ANETA PAWŁOWSKA
Can we talk about contemporary avant-garde outside Western cultures? The case of contemporary art in the Republic of South Africa
ALEKSANDRA ŁUKASZEWICZ-ALCARAZ
Interwar works by Izrael Lejzerowicz in the context of the “new art” milieu’s accomplishments in Łódź
IRMINA GADOWSKA
The intermediality of the avant-garde or the avant-garde of intermediality? Is the avant-garde intermedial?
KONRAD CHMIELECKI
Intermediality and performativity in the context of performance art.
LILIANNA BIESZCZAD
Digital performance and avant-garde artistic distinctions
PAULINA SZTABIŃSKA
From sign to word in contemporary Polish “HTML literature”. Post-avant-garde heirs of modernist typography
ANETA PAWŁOWSKA, ANNA WENDORFF
Bauhaus – the school that became the avant-garde
DOMINIKA ŁARIONOW
The avant-garde roots of Polish design in the Socialist Realism period. A case study
ALEKSANDRA SUMOROK
Designing utopia. Avant-garde architecture vs. processes of modernization
BŁAŻEJ CIARKOWSKI