Radical Art and the Formation of the Avant-GardeAn authoritative re definition of the social, cultural and visual history of the emergence of the avant garde in Paris and London Over the past fifty years, the term "avant garde" has come to shape discussions of European culture and modernity, ubiquitously taken for granted but rarely defined. This ground breaking book develops an original and searching methodology that fundamentally reconfigures the social, cultural, and visual context of the