Introduction. The Double World -- A Nationalist World: Futurism, Apollinaire, and the Nation -- Messy Internationalism: Dada, Anarchism, and Picabia's Group Portraits -- Cosmopolitan Peasants: The Foreignness of the Avant-Garde -- Monstrum Universale: Surrealism and a New Vision of Humanism -- World Simulated: The Surrealist Exhibition as Critique of the Global.
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"This book delves into the interwar world as represented in the poetry, theater, prose, and art of French-speaking avant-garde writers and artists whose aspirations for a global audience transformed everything about their intellectual movements"-- Provided by publisher.
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