Book Review: Concepts of the world: the French avant-garde and the idea of the international, 1910–1940 Concepts of the world: the French avant-garde and the idea of the international, 1910–1940 , by Effie Rentzou, Evanston, IL, Northwestern University Press, 2022, 408 pp., $45.00 (paperback), ISBN 9780810145061.

In the wake of the landmark 2021 Met/Tate Modern Surrealism Beyond Borders exhibition, Effie Rentzou’s book represents a timely contribution to the current rediscovery and revalorisation of the historic avant-gardes as global movements. Not only does she highlight the international composition of the historical avant-gardes of Dada and Surrealism, she also identifies the resources that these movements can provide for us to think the ‘global’ in our contemporary moment. Rentzou also opens up avenues for further research, indicating ways in which these historic movements can be tantalizingly brought into dialogue with the nonhuman turn and rhetorics of decoloniality.