Balázs Eszter: Art in action. Lajos Kassák's Avant-Garde Journals from A Tett to Dokumentum, 1915-1927 - The avant-garde and its journals 3. (Budapest, 2017)

Hubert van den Berg: Lajos Kassák, the Viennese Edition of MA and the “International” of Avant-Garde Journals in the 1920s

the Roman Noi [Us]1’4 and the Zurich based Dos Werk [The Work] followed Kassák's example or rather examples: in following years, Kassák created new charts himself as well in MA in 1923 and 1924 and later in Dokumentum [Document] in 1926.24 25 26 In particular, the latter one echoed in turn in its composition charts published in other journals in the meantime. [Figs. 4-12]

[4.] Advertisement for international avant-garde journals, Manométre, 1/6., 1924, [unpaginated after page 108], Lyon

[5.] Advertisement for international avant-garde journals, Blok, 1/6-7., 1924, [23.], Warsaw

Differences between the respective selections of journals in the single journals are obvious. One reason is the simple circumstance that many journals did exist only for a short time, sometimes only appearing as a single issue. Besides, many mention different journals that had only a local or regional, but not a wider international circulation, like the Hungarian-written journal Út [Road] from Novi Sad, mentioned in MA, or the Dutch journal Het Getij [The

24 From 1924 on, each issue of Noi contained a chart. Noi, 2/6-9., 1924, [back cover.]

25 Dos Werk, 13/7., 1926, 235-236.

26 MA, 9/1., 1923 [12.] MA, 9/6., 1924, [16.] Dokumentum, 1/1., 1926, 52.

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