Belgian
Avant-Garde
Van der Aa, Manu. Tatave! Paul-Gustave van Hecke: kunstpaus – modekoning – salonsocialist. Tielt: Lannoo, 2017.
Adriaens-Pannier, Anne, ed. Een verzameling tekeningen, grafische werken en dokumenten van Jozef Peeters, Jan Cockx, Jos Leonard, Karel Maes en Edmond Van Dooren. Brussels: Royal Museums of Fine Arts Belgium, 1986.
Adriaens-Pannier, Anne, Pierre Baudson, Alejandra Bordoy Bennàsar, Véronique Cardon, Pierre-Yves Desaive, Bernadette De Visscher-D’Haeye, Michel Draguet, et al. The Art of the 20th and 21st Centuries. Brussels: Royal Museums of Fine Art of Belgium; Tielt: Lannoo, 2020.
Allmer, Patricia. René Magritte. London: Reaktion Books, 2019.
Allmer, Patricia, and Hilde Van Gelder, eds. Collective Inventions: Surrealism in Belgium. Lieven Gevaert Series. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2007.
Aubert, Nathalie, Pierre-Philippe Fraiture, and Patrick McGuiness, eds. From Art Nouveau to Surrealism: Belgian Modernity in the Making. London: Legenda, 2007.
Baetens, Jan, and Michael Kasper. Correspondance: The Birth of Belgian Surrealism. Belgian Francophone Library 27. New York: Peter Lang, 2015.
Borgers, Gerrit. Paul van Ostaijen: Een Documentatie. The Hague: Bert Bakker, 1971.
Boudin-Lestienne, Stéphane, Alexandre Mare, Yaron Pesztat, and Iwan Strauwen. 7 Arts (1922-1928): een Belgisch Avant-Gardetijdschrift. Brussels: CIVA, 2020.
Boyens, José. De genesis van Bezette stad. Ik spreek met de mannen en regel alles wel: brieven van Oscar Jespers aan Paul van Ostaijen 1920-1921 over het ontstaan van Bezette stad en de Antwerpse groepering van het Sienjaal. Antwerp: Pandora, 1995.
Canonne, Xavier. Het Surrealisme in België: 1924-2000. Antwerp: Mercatorfonds, 2006.
Canonne, Xavier, and Julie Waseige, eds. René Magritte: A Lab of Ideas Works on Paper. Brussels: Ludion, 2022.
Canonne, Xavier, Ann Paenhuysen, Rick Sauwen, Geneviève Michel, Virginie Devillez, Kurt Deboodt, Raoul Vaneigem, Paul Aron, Patricia Allmer, Philippe Dewolf. Le surréalisme en Belgique. Histoire de ne pas rire. Antwerp: Mercatorfonds, 2024.
Devillez, Virginie. Kunst aan de orde: kunst en politiek in België 1918-1945. Ghent: Snoeck, 2003.
Devillez, Virginie, Peter J. H. Pauwels, Manu van der Aa, Nele Bernheim, Véronique Cardon, Piet Boyens, and Xavier Canonne. Kunstpromotor Paul-Gustave Van Hecke (1887–1967) en de Avant-Garde. Cahiers of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium 12. Brussels: Snoeck, 2012.
Draguet, Michel, ed. Magritte tout en papier: collages, dessins, gouaches. Paris: Hazan, 2006.
Delahaut, Jo. “Les premiers abstraits belges.” Bulletin of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, 4 (1959): 231-250.
Eycken, Sarah. “Het Overzicht – De Driehoek – Variétés. Het tijdschrift als papieren tentoonstellingsruimte voor de Belgische avant-garde in het interbellum.” Tijd-Schrift. Heemkunde en lokaal-erfgoedpraktijk in Vlaanderen, 12, 2 (2023): 62-79.
Eycken, Sarah. “Colour Samples: The Use of Coloured Paper in Belgian Avant-Garde Circles After 1917.” In Artists’ Paper: A Case in Paper History, edited by Patricia Engel et al., 164-192. Horn: Verlag Berger, 2023.
Eycken, Sarah. “Monochrome Harmony: Black-and-White Work on Paper in Belgian Constructivism.” In Historic Avant-Garde Work on Paper, edited by Sascha Bru and Laura Kollwelter, Routledge Research in Art History, 109-126. New York: Routledge, 2024.
Van Faassen, Sjoerd, and August Hans den Boef, eds. Van De Stijl en Het Overzicht tot De Driehoek: Belgisch-Nederlandse netwerken in het modernistische interbellum. Antwerp and Apeldoorn: Garant, 2013.
Gobyn, Ronny, and Sam Stourdzé, eds. Variétés: Avant-garde, surréalisme et la photographie 1928-1930. Arles: Actes Sud, 2019.
Gonnissen, Adriaan, ed. Flouquet, Kassák, Léonard: The Architecture of Images during the Interwar Period. Ostend: Mu.ZEE, 2018.
Gonnissen, Adriaan, Rajesh Heynickx, Rik Sauwen, Frank van Eeckhout, Phillip den van Bossche, and Sophie Verdoodt, eds. Paul Joostens. Manuscripts – Essays. Ostend: Mu.ZEE, 2014.
Gonnissen, Adriaan, Björn Scherlippens, and Phillip van den Bossche, eds. Paul Joostens 1889-1960. Oeuvre – Works. Ostend: Mu. ZEE, 2014.
Goyens de Heusch, Serge. “7 arts” Bruxelles 1922-1929: un front de jeunesse pour la révolution artistique. Brussels: Ministère de la culture française de Belgique, 1976.
Goyens de Heusch, Serge. Pierre-Louis Flouquet 1900-1967. Brussels: Mecenart/Fondation pour l’art belge contemporain, 1994.
Hadermann, Paul. Vuur in de verte. Paul van Ostaijens kunstopvattingen in het licht van de europese avant-garde. Antwerpen: Ontwikkeling, 1970.
Van Haute, Katrien. Jos Léonard en de ontstaansgeschiedenis van het grafisch ontwerp in België (1918-1936). Doctoral thesis, KU Leuven, 2009.
Henkels, Herbert, ed. Seuphor. Antwerp: Mercatorfonds, 1976.
Heynickx, Rajesh. Meetzucht en mateloosheid: kunst, religie en identiteit in Vlaanderen tijdens het interbellum. Nijmegen: Vantilt, 2008.
Kurczynski, Karen. The Cobra Movement in Postwar Europe: Reanimating Art. Routledge Research in Art History. New York: Routledge, 2021.
Mariën, Marcel. L’activité surréaliste en Belgique (1924-1950). Le Fil Rouge. Brussels: Lebeer-Hossmann, 1979.
Mertens, Phil. Felix De Boeck: van punt tot cirkel. Brussels: Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, 1981.
Meyer-Büser, Susanne, ed. Die andere Seite des Mondes: Künstlerinnen der Avantgarde. Düsseldorf: Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 2011.
Van Mol, Dennis. (persoonlijk ben ik er niet voor): Over de moeizame doorbraak van de moderne -ismen en het ontstaan van een activistische tegentraditie in Vlaanderen, 1906-1933. Doctoral thesis, Universiteit Antwerpen, 2017.
Paenhuysen, An. De Nieuwe Wereld: De Wonderjaren van de Belgische Avant-Garde (1918-1939). Antwerpen: Meulenhoff/Manteau, 2010.
Pauwels, Peter J. H. Jozef Peeters en de strijd tegen den tingeltangel. Het (inter)nationale netwerk van een Antwerps pionier in de avant-garde van de jaren 20. Antwerp: Ludion, 2022.
Pauwels, Peter J. H., and Kristien Boon, eds. Marthe Donas: A Woman Artist in the Avant-Garde. Antwerp: Ludion, 2016.
Pauwels, Peter J. H., Sergio Servellón, and Han Steenbruggen. Noord-Zuid. Constructivistische Verbanden. Heerenveen: Museum Belvédère; Drogenbos: FeliXart Museum, 2017.
De Potter, Céline, Norbert Bandier, Virginie Devillez, François Mairesse, and Hélène Vincent. Grenoble 1927: een panorama van de Belgische kunst = Grenoble 1927: un panorama de l’art belge = Grenoble 1927: a panorama of Belgian art. Wijnegem: Pandora Publishers, 2012.
Rossi-Schrimpf, Inga, and Laura Kollwelter, eds. 14/18 – Rupture or Continuity: Belgian Art around World War I. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2018.
Servellón, Sergio, and Anne Adriaens-Pannier, eds. Het Oeuvre van Felix De Boeck in Tekeningen. Brussels: Pandora, 2012.
Seuphor, Michel. De Abstracte Kunst in Vlaanderen. Brussels: Arcade, 1963.
De Smet, Johan, ed. Modernisme: Belgische abstracte kunst en Europa. Brussels: Mercatorfonds, 2013.
Stoop, Eline. “De Leugen van Victor Servranckx, Behangpapierontwerper Voor UPL (1917-1925).” Tijdschrift voor Interieurgeschiedenis en Design, 41 (2019): 107–20.
Sylvester, David. Magritte. Antwerp: Mercatorfonds, 1992.
Vandenbroucke, Dieter. Dansen op een vulkaan: Victor J. Brunclair: schrijver in een bewogen tijd. Antwerp: De Bezige Bij, 2014.
Van de Velde, Ronny, Jessy van de Velde, Adriaan Gonissen, Peter J.H. Pauwels, Herwig Todts, Guy Braeckman, Didier Veysset, and Dominique Grégoire. Jules Schmalzigaug 1882-1917. Brussels: Ludion, 2020.
Verhack, Valerie, Giovanni Lista, Willard Bohn, Jules Schmalzigaug: Un futuriste belge. Cahiers of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium 8. Ghent: Snoeck, 2010.
Veltman, David. ‘Sterven in het bed waarin ik geboren ben’: een biografie van Felix De Boeck (1898-1995). Hilversum: Verloren, 2021.
Weisgerber, Jean, ed. Les Avant-gardes littéraires en Belgique: Au confluent des arts et des langues, 1880-1950. Archives du futur. Brussels: Labor, 1991.
Wenderski, Michał. Cultural Mobility in the Interwar Avant-Garde Art Network: Poland, Belgium and the Netherlands. Routledge Research in Art History. New York: Routledge, 2018.
De Wilde, Eliane, Leen Frederik, Anne Adriaens-Pannier, and Gisèle Ollinger-Zinque. Avant-garde in België, 1917-1929: Museum voor Moderne Kunst Brussel, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen. Brussel: Gemeentekrediet, 1992.
International
Avant-Garde
Adamowicz, Elza. Dada Bodies: Between Battlefield and Fairground. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019.
Adamowicz, Elza. Surrealist Collage in Text and Image: Dissecting the Exquisite Corpse. Cambridge Studies in French. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Adamowicz, Elza, and Eric Robertson, eds. Dada and Beyond. Volume 1: Dada Discourses. Avant-Garde Critical Studies. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011.
Adamowicz, Elza, and Simona Storchi, eds. Back to the Futurists. The avant-garde and its legacy. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013.
Ades, Dawn, Robert K. Brown and Mildred S. Friedman. The 20th-Century Poster: Design of the Avant-Garde. Abbeville Press, 1984.
Anděl, Jaroslav. The Avant-Garde Book, 1900-1945. New York: Franklin Furnace, 1989.
Archer-Shaw, Petrine. Negrophilia: Avant-Garde Paris and Black Culture in the 1920s. Interplay. London: Thames & Hudson, 2000.
Bäckström, Per, and Benedikt Hjartarson, eds. Decentring the Avant-Garde. Avant Garde Critical Studies. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2014.
Badiou, Alain. The Century. Translated by Alberto Toscano. Malden: Polity Press, 2007.
Banash, David. Collage Culture: Readymades, Meaning, and the Age of Consumption. Postmodern Studies. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2013.
Bann, Stephen, ed. The Tradition of Constructivism. New York: The Viking Press, 1974.
Barnstone, Deborah Ascher, and Maria Makela, eds. Material Modernity: Innovations in Art, Design, and Architecture in the Weimar Republic. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022.
Benjamin, Walter. “Surrealism: The Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia.” In One-Way Street and Other Writings, by Walter Benjamin, 225–39. Translated by Edmund Jephcott. London: NLB, 1979.
Berghaus, Günter. Handbook of International Futurism. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019.
Bischoff, Ulrich, and Jurgen Müller, eds. The Power of the Avant-Garde: Now and Then. Brussels: Lannoo, 2016.
Bois, Yve-Alain, and Rosalind Krauss. Formless: A User’s Guide. New York: Zone Books, 1997.
Brooker, Peter, Sascha Bru, Andrew Thacker, and Christian Weikop. The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Bru, Sascha. The European Avant-Gardes, 1905-1935: A Portable Guide. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018.
Bru, Sascha, Jan Baetens, Benedikt Hjartarson, Peter Nicholls, Tania Ørum, and Hubert Berg, eds. Europa! Europa?: The Avant-Garde, Modernism and the Fate of a Continent. European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2009.
Bru, Sascha, Laurence Nuijs, Benedikt Hjartarson, Peter Nicholls, Tania Ørum, and Hubert Berg, eds. Regarding the Popular: Modernism, the Avant-Garde and High and Low Culture. European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2011.
Bru, Sascha, Laura Kollwelter, eds. Historic Avant-Garde Work on Paper. Routledge Research in Art History. New York: Routledge, 2024.
Buchloh, Benjamin H. D. Formalism and Historicity: Models and Methods in Twentieth-Century Art. October Books. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2015.
Bürger, Peter. Theory of the Avant-Garde. Translated by Michael Shaw. Theory and History of Literature. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984.
Calinescu, Matei. Five Faces of Modernity: Modernism, Avant-Garde, Decadence, Kitsch, Postmodernism. Durham: Duke University Press, 1988.
Cottington, David. Radical Art and the Formation of the Avant-Garde. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022.
Dickerman, Leah, and Matthew S. Witkovsky, eds. The Dada Seminars. Washington: The National Gallery of Art Washington, 2005.
Dragu, Magda. Form and Meaning in Avant-Garde Collage and Montage. Routledge Research in Art History. New York: Routledge, 2020.
Farrell, Jennifer, ed. Modern Times: British Prints, 1913–1939. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021.
Forgács, Éva. Malevich and Interwar Modernism: Russian Art and the International of the Square. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022.
Foster, Hal, Rosalind E. Krauss, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin Heinz-Dieter Buchloh, and David Joselit. Art since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism. London: Thames & Hudson, 2016.
Gee, Malcolm, Kate Kangaslahti, and Chara Kolokytha, eds. MODERN ART REVIEWed: Art Reviews, Magazines and Gallery Bulletins in Europe, 1910-1945. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022.
Gough, Maria. The Artist as Producer: Russian Constructivism in Revolution. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.
Hage, Emily. Dada Magazines: The Making of a Movement. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.
Hauptman, Jodi, ed. Drawing from the Modern 1880-1945. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2004.
Heller, Steven. Merz to Emigré and Beyond : Avant-Garde Magazine Design of the Twentieth Century. New York: Phaidon, 2014.
Hopkins, David, ed. A Companion to Dada and Surrealism. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016.
Hubert, Renee Riese. Surrealism and the Book. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.
Joyeux-Prunel, Béatrice. Les avant-gardes artistiques (1918-1945): Une histoire transnationale. Folio Histoire. Paris: Gallimard, 2017.
Kern, Stephen. The Culture of Time and Space, 1880–1918: With a New Preface. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003.
Krauss, Rosalind E. The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1989.
Krauss, Rosalind E., and Jane Livingston. L’Amour Fou: Photography & Surrealism. New York: Abbeville Press, 1985.
Levinger, Esther. Constructivism in Central Europe: Painting, Typography, Photomontage. Leiden: Brill, 2022.
Lippard, Lucy R., ed. Dadas on Art. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1971.
Meggs, Philip B., and Alston W. Purvis. Meggs’ History of Graphic Design. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2016.
Miller, Tyrus. “Avant-Garde and Theory: A Misunderstood Relation.” Poetics Today 20, 4 (1999): 549–79.
Miller, Tyrus. Modernism and the Frankfurt School. Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014.
Ortega y Gasset, José. The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays on Art, Culture, and Literature. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1968.
Perloff, Marjorie. The Futurist Moment: Avant-Garde, Avant Guerre, and the Language of Rupture, with a New Preface. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Poggi, Christine. In Defiance of Painting: Cubism, Futurism, and the Invention of Collage. Yale Publications in the History of Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.
Posman, Sarah, Anne Reverseau, David Ayers, Sascha Bru, and Benedikt Hjartarson, eds. The Aesthetics of Matter: Modernism, the Avant-Garde and Material Exchange. European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013.
Richter, Hans. Dada, Art, and Anti-Art. London: Thames & Hudson, 1997.
Rossi-Schrimpf, Inga, ed. The New Berlin 1912-1932. Tielt: Lannoo, 2019.
Scheijen, Sjeng. De Avant-Gardisten: De Russische Revolutie in de Kunst, 1917-1935. Amsterdam: Prometheus, 2019.
Scheunemann, Dietrich, ed. Avant-Garde/Neo-Avant-Garde. Avant Garde Critical Studies. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005.
Spencer, Herbert. Pioneers of Modern Typography. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004.
Spies, Werner. Max Ernst Frottages. London: Thames & Hudson, 1986.
Strom, Kirsten. The Routledge Companion to Surrealism. New York: Routledge, 2023.
Timms, Edward, and Peter Collier, eds. Visions and Blueprints: Avant-Garde Culture and Radical Politics in Early Twentieth-Century Europe. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988.
Vandepitte, Francisca, Didier Ottinger, Marie Sarré, and Paolo Scopelliti. Imagine! 100 years of International Surrealism. Brussels: Ludion, 2024.
Vandi, Loretta, ed. Ornament and European Modernism: From Art Practice to Art History. Routledge Research in Art History. New York: Routledge, 2018.
Waldman, Diane. Collage, Assemblage, and the Found Object. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1992.
Wescher, Herta. Die Geschichte der Collage: Vom Kubismus bis zur Gegenwart. Cologne: M. DuMont Schauberg, 1974.
Wood, Paul. The Challenge of the Avant-Garde. Art and Its Histories. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.
Wünsche, Isabel, and Miriam Leimer, eds. 100 Years On: Revisiting the First Russian Art Exhibition of 1922. Cologne: Böhlau, 2022.