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1. Avant-Garde and the neo-avant-garde: from the pursuit of the primordial to the nihilism of narcissism 1A. The idealisation of the avant-garde artist as transmuter of value 1B. Fame, fortune, publicity, paratism: The narcissistic illusions of the neo-avant-garde artist 2. Preliminary therapeutic attitude: the provocative object as a path to primordiality (Picasso and Duchamp) 3. The geometrical cure: art as a matter of principle (Mondrian and Malevich) 4. The expressive cure: art as the recovery of primal emotion (Expressionism and Surrealism) 5. Fame as the cure-all, or the charisma of cynicism: Andy Warhol 6. Enchanting the disenchanted, or the artist's last stand: Joseph Beuys 7. The decadence or cloning of the avant-garde: appropriating art.