Ironies of the modern -- Breaking the rules: Symbolism in France -- Decadence and the art of death -- Paths to the future -- A metaphysics of modernity: Marinetti and Italian Futurism -- Other spaces: French Cubism and Russian Futurism -- Cruel structures: the development of Expressionism -- Modernity and the "Men of 1914" -- At a tangent: other Modernisms -- From fantasy to structure: Dada and Neo-Classicism -- Other times: the narratives of high Modernism -- Death and desire: the Surrealist adventure.