Contagion, Hygiene, and the European Avant-Garde (Routledge Research in Art History)

Cover\nEndorsements\nHalf Title\nSeries Page\nTitle Page\nCopyright Page\nContents\nPreface\nList of Contributors\nINTRODUCTION\n1. Contexts: Modernity, Hygiene, and Contagion\nPART I: Hygiene and Materialities of the Modern Metropolis\n	2. Degas and the Matter of Contagion: Dirt, Skin, Touch, and the Cosmetic Arts\n	3. ‘I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt’: George Orwell, Grubbiness, and Hygiene\nPART II: The Avant-Garde and Illness: Syphilis, The ‘Spanish Flu’, Tuberculosis\n	4. Exposing ‘The Venereal Peril’: Fournier’s Syphilography, Munch’s Heredo-Syphilitic, La Syphilis Arabe, and Picasso’s Prostitutes\n	5. Marcel Duchamp’s Paris Air: The ‘Spanish Flu’, Black Humour, and Dada Contagion\n	6. Spittle, Dust, and Flies: Documents and Tuberculosis in the Visual Culture of Interwar France\nPART III: Contagion as Metaphor: Labour and Ecology\n	7. Wage Labour as Contagion: Surrealist Sewing Machines and Liberatory Eroticism\n	8. Avant-Garde Hygiene and Contagion: Artaud’s Ecology in the Chemical Century\nIndex