The challenge of the avant-garde / edited by Paul Wood

Avant-garde from the July Monarchy to the Second Empire / Paul Wood -- Material differences : the early avant-garde in France / Gen Doy -- Photography and modernity in nineteenth-century France / Steve Edwards -- Modernity in Germany : the many sides of Adolph Menzel / Jason Gaiger -- Avant-garde and the Paris Commune / Paul Wood -- Caillebotte, masculinity, and the bourgeois gaze / Fionna Barber -- Exhibiting modernity : the 1889 Universal Exhibition and the Eiffel Tower / Tim Benton -- Exhibiting "les Indépendants" : Gauguin and the Café Volpini show / Gill Perry -- Avant-garde in the early twentieth century / Paul Wood -- Futurists : transcontinental avant-gardism / Gail Day -- Revolutionary avant-gardes : Dada, constructivism and surrealism / Paul Wood