Art in action
Subtitle: Lajos Kassák's avant-garde journals from A Tett to Dokumentum (1915-1927)
By: edited by Eszter Balázs, Edit Sasvári and Merse Pál Szeredi ; text, Eszter Balázs [and 7 others]
Contributors: Szeredi Merse, Pál, editor, writer of supplementary textual content; Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum (Budapest, Hungary); Kassák Múzeum
Series: The avant-garde and its journals -- 3; Avant-garde and its journals -- 3.
Publisher: Petőfi Literary Museum - Kassák Museum; Kassák Foundation
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Budapest
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9786155517228
Subjects: Exhibitions; Avant-garde (Aesthetics); Arts; Periodicals; History
Other titles: Lajos Kassák's avant-garde journals from A Tett to Dokumentum (1915-1927)
Notes: "This volume accompanies the exhibition series entitled KASSÁKISM organized by the Petőfi Literary Museum, the Petőfi Literary Museum - Kassák Museum and the Gizi Bajor Actors' Museum in 2017. This volume was published as a part of the research project of the Petőfi Literary Museum - Kassák Museum entitled "Lajos Kassák's avant-garde journals from an interdisciplinary perspective (1915-1928)", supported by the National Research, Development and Innovation Office."--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Gergely Prőhle; title: Lajos Kassák, the Viennese edition of MA and the "International" of avant-garde journals in the 1920s / Hubert van den Berg; title: Avant-garde and radical anti-war dissent in Hungary: A Tett (1915-1916); title: Signal to the world: war, avant-garde, Kassák; title: Purposeful player of the new instrument: Lajos Kassák and the Budapest MA / Márton Pacsika; title: Imagining a movement: MA in Budapest; title: Kassákism: MA in Vienna (1920-1925) / Merse Pál Szeredi; title: New art: the Vienna edition of MA in the international networks of avant-garde (Kassákism 1.); title: 2x2: the journal edited by Lajos Kassák and Andor Németh (1922) / Gyögy Tverdota; title: The new Kassák: The Horse Dies and the Birds Fly Away (Kassákism 2.); title: Avant-garde experiments committed to paper: the MA "Music and theatre special issue" (1924) / Judit Galácz; title: New drama, new stage: theatrical experiments of the Hungarian avant-garde (Kassákism 3.); title: Generation change, synthesis and a programme for a new society: Dokumentum in Budapest (1926-1927) / Gábor Dobó; title: From machines to images: themes and interpretations in Dokumentum.