Introduction: Minor Modernisms?
Beáta Hock, Klara Kemp-Welch, and Jonathan Owen
- In the Currents of the International Avant-Garde Movements
Krisztina Passuth
- Is the Cubism that is Czech Also Universal? Czech Art Theory (1921–1958) and Cubism as a Cultural and Transcultural Phenomenon
Marie Rakušanová
- Parasitism
Andrzej Turowski
- Palimpsest – A Possible Language for Interpreting Twentieth-Century Art History (As Illustrated by Košice Art of the 1920s)
Zuzana Bartošová
- Zdeněk Rykr and the Chocolate Factory
Vojtěch Lahoda
- A(bs)traction: The Czech Lands Amid the Centres of Modernity 1918–1950 (‘(Not Only) on the Relationships Between the Fine and Applied Arts [Introduction]’ & ‘The Decoration of Decorative Art’)
Hana Rousová
- The Magazine Formiści and the Early International Contacts of the Polish Avant-Garde (1919–1921)
Przemyslaw Strożek
- Balancing ‘Absolute Painting’ and Reality: Ľudovít Fulla and the Paradoxes of Slovak Modernism
Katarína Bajcurová
- Biomorphism as Avant-Garde Deconstruction
Andrzej Turowski
- Rytm, Sanacja, and the Dream of Modern Art Patronage in Poland (1922–1932)
Małgorzata Sears
- The Poverty of the Matriarchal Ornament and the Gleam of the Civilised Woman
Martina Pachmanová
- Modernity, Indifference, and Oblivion: Katarzyna Kobro and Maria Jarema
Waldemar Baraniewski
- The Hungarian Prinner
Júlia Cserba
- Old Worlds and the New Vision: The Ethnographic Modernism of Karel Plicka’s The Earth Sings (1933)
Jonathan Owen
- Derkovits: The Artist and his Times
(‘Introduction’ & ‘Fade-ins: The Art of Gyula Derkovits and Interwar Hungarian Social Photography’)
Katalin Bakos and András Zwickl
Ágnes Kusler and Merse Pál Szeredi
- Modernism and the School of Arts and Crafts in Bratislava
Iva Mojžišová
- Looking Forwards or Back? Shifting Perspectives in the Venice Biennale’s Hungarian Exhibition: 1928 and 1948
Kinga Bódi
- Cyprián Majerník: From the Grotesque to the Tragic
Zsófia Kiss-Szemán
- ‘Do You See Anything?’ Asked Poussin: The Informe, Bataille, and the Czech Surrealists
Lenka Bydžovská
- A ‘Modern’ Official Art: The School of Rome
Julianna P. Szűcs
- Two Important Czech Institutions, 1938–1948
Lucie Zadražilová and Milan Pech
- Strzemiński’s War
Luiza Nader
- ‘The Joy of New Constructions in Times of Homelessness’: Marian Bogusz’s Art of the 1940s
Agata Pietrasik
- Artist Among the Ruins. Art in Poland of the 1940s and Surrealist Subtexts
Dorota Jarecka
- Film Montage and the Principle of Montage in Non-Cinematic Media, A Case Study: The Early Collages of Jiří Kolář
Tomáš Pospiszyl
- The European School and the Group of Abstract Artists (‘Between the Ramparts: The Critical Reception of the European School and the Gallery of the Four Directions’ & ‘Broken Dolls: Central European Parallels and Connections’)
Péter György and Gábor Pataki
- The Embodiment of Communist Utopia: Socialist Realism in Slovakia, 1948–1956
Zora Rusinová