How to Be Avant-Garde Spring26 In This Is Your Mind

In This Is Your Mind On Plants

’JULIA SAMUEL

the ‘Brussels Effect’

at a distance of nearly five centuries and after the destruction of many of his papers at his own fall

How to Be Avant-Garde Spring26 In This Is Your MindArt has poisoned our life, proclaimed Dutch artist and De Stijl co founder Theo van Doesburg. Reacting to the tumultuous crises of the twentieth century, especially the horrors of the First World War, avant garde artists and writers sought to destroy art by transforming it into the substance of everyday life. Following the evolution of these revolutionary groups, How to Be Avant Garde charts its pioneers and radical ideas. From Paris to New York, from