ABSTRACT

The network of historical avant-garde was, as such, a multifaceted, fluctuating and rhizomatic structure where no strict stylistic or nation-based delimitations are applicable. The cultural mobility between Poland and the Low Countries is just a small case study which aims to contribute to the mapping of the avant-garde network. It has nevertheless shown that various nodes of this network created numerous links to each other, and they did so without any notion of hierarchy between them, since they all remained marginal per se. The denial of "full artistic/cultural citizenship" for avant-garde artists was actually the reason and motivating factor behind them creating so many links to one another, which in turn boosted the exchange and circulation of their progressive ideas.