David Hopkins is an Emeritus Professor and Professional Research Fellow in Art History at the University of Glasgow. Disa Persson is a doctoral researcher in Art History at the University of Glasgow.
A sparkling collection of essays which adds reflections on the motifs and rhetorics of contagion to the concept and history of the European artistic avant-gardes. As such it's a valuable contribution to the deepening of our understanding of these formations. David Cottington, Kingston University, London This is a welcome and all too timely volume, taking up the significance of the avant-garde's 'rhetorics of contagion,' the idea of 'art-as-infection,' and relays between visuality and virality in the long histories of hygienic discourses and practices. Allison Morehead, Queen's University, Canada