Table of Contents |
| Foreword / Andrea L. Rich | 8 |
| Introduction / Timothy O. Benson | 12 |
| A Careful Definition of the Locale: Walking Around and Around a Solitary Wild Pear Tree / Peter Nadas | 22 |
| Exchange and Transformation: The Internationalization of the Avant-Garde(s) in Central Europe / Timothy O. Benson | 34 |
| Nationalism and Modernity / Anthony D. Smith | 68 |
| Prague / Lenka Bydzovska | 81 |
| The First Skupina Exhibition, Prague, 1912 | 87 |
| Surrealities / Derek Sayer | 90 |
| Poetry in the Midst of the World: The Avant-Garde as Projectile / Karel Srp | 108 |
| Central Europe: The Linguistic Turn / Michael Henry Heim | 132 |
| Budapest / Lee Congdon | 141 |
| Between Cultures: Hungarian Concepts of Constructivism / Eva Forgacs | 146 |
| Vienna / Pal Dereky | 165 |
| Art into Life: International Constructivism in Central and Eastern Europe / Christina Lodder | 172 |
| Berlin / Krisztina Passuth | 199 |
| Weimar / Eva Bajkay | 205 |
| The First Bauhaus Exhibition, Weimar, 1923 | 213 |
| Dessau / Eva Bajkay | 217 |
| The Exhibition as a Work of Art: Avant-Garde Exhibitions in East Central Europe / Krisztina Passuth | 226 |
| Bucharest / Ioana Vlasiu | 247 |
| Zagreb / Zelimir Koscevic | 255 |
| Ljubomir Micic and the Zenitist Utopia / Esther Levinger | 260 |
| Belgrade / Misko Suvakovic | 279 |
| Ljubljana / Lev Kreft | 283 |
| Methodology and Meaning in the Modern Art of Eastern Europe / S. A. Mansbach | 288 |
| Poznan / Jerzy Malinowski | 307 |
| Modernity and Nationalism: Avant-Garde Art and Polish Independence, 1912-1922 / Piotr Piotrowski | 312 |
| Cracow / Tomasz Gryglewicz | 327 |
| Warsaw / Dorota Folga-Januszewska | 333 |
| Collaboration and Compromise: Women Artists in Polish-German Avant-Garde Circles, 1910-1930 / Monika Krol | 338 |
| Lodz / Jaromir Jedlinsky | 357 |
| The Phenomenon of Blurring / Andrzej Turowski | 362 |
| Checklist and Artist Biographies | 374 |
| Selected Bibliography | 416 |
| Acknowledgments | 431 |
| Lenders to the Exhibition | 436 |
| Illustration Credits | 437 |
| Index | 440 |