Aesthetic experimentation and transformation of artistic language at the dawn of the Twentieth Century -- Protagonists of the modern techniques and materials used in new art -- the eccentric vision of modernism -- The rigorous and geometrical line of modernist culture -- Artists' writings and critical debates 1900-1920 -- Art nouveau and the Parisian crucible of the avant-gardes -- Fashion and anti-fashion at the turn of the Twentieth Century -- From secessions to expressionism -- Artistic creativity and idea of the city 1900-1914, the case of Munich -- From Scapigliatura to futurism -- Art and cinema 1900-1920 -- The fusion of the new languages -- The utopia of total art -- The experiences of abstraction -- The semantic revolution of the avant-gardes -- The end of the artistic object