Avant-garde and neo-avant-garde : from the pursuit of the primordial to the nihilism of narcissism
Preliminary therapeutic attitude : the provocative object as a path to primordiality : Picasso and Duchamp
The geometrical cure : art as a matter of principle : Mondrian and Malevich
The expressive cure : art as the recovery of primal emotion : expressionism and surrealism
Fame as the cure-all : the charisma of cynicism : Andy Warhol
Enchanting the disenchanted : the artist's last stand : Joseph Beuys
The decadence or cloning and coding of the avant-garde : appropriation art.