Edited by Sarah Posman, Anne Reverseau, David Ayers, Sascha Bru, and Benedikt Hjartarson.

The arrival of the early twentieth-century avant-gardes and modernisms coincided with an in-depth exploration of the materiality of art and writing. The European historical avant-gardes and modernism excelled in their attempts to establish the specificity of media and art forms as well as in experimenting with the hybridity of the materials of their multiple disciplines. The Aesthetics of Matter. Modernism, the Avant-Garde and Material Exchange sheds light on the range and import of this aspect in avant-garde and modernist aesthetics across all art forms and throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.