The Rhythmists

Abstract This essay discusses a group of anglophone artists the pre-First World War period who not only assimilated Parisian avant-garde practices but took plunge attempting to make their careers in Paris itself decade before 1915. The constellation questions, both historical and theoretical, that this initiative raises provides framework for an analysis offers detailed materialist history emergence, consolidation diversification formation these respective fields theoretical understanding dynamics—and, through this, character then emergent European artistic avant-garde.