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)
/ Signal to the World - WarAvant-GardenKassák
THE AVANT-GARDE IN THE WAR DISCOURSE (1915-1916) [Futurism], which the Italian is now trying out with his idiosyncratic childlike enthusiasm, is already passé here. The Futurist is the overaged Child, longing for danger and violence like a child for the adventures of Robinson Crusoe [A Tett] is an utterly valueless journal riding on pOTN/GTSlty and immoderacy [Kassák] abuses his erotomania to the point of pornography This war has pulled everything apart and shaken up form, as is reflected in Kassák’s poems The SLlbVGTSiVG TclQG [of Kassák] search for new paths [Kassák’s verse] is formless, wild and raucous warbling the Italian nation has lost its common sense young and temperamental Italian painters [the Italians] are a people who get drunk quickly, but soon sober up [The Italian is] the most treacherous enemy Nowhere in Europe are public morals looser than in Italy [Kassák and company] regard the degenerate and sick Futurists as their ideal [Kassák] has mainly propagated literary lunacy Futurist painting is bizarre and largely incomprehensible [Kassák’s works] are the most unparalleled drivel Marinetti screamed for the ‘beauty’ of fire, blood and destruction [Italy] is making a principle out of destruction of a beautiful past, like the Futurists The movement that has swept Italy into this war is, in fact, essentially the Futurist movement KASSÁKI FUTURISTS ITALIANS I HUNGARIAN FUTURISTS I THE FUTURIST STATE OF ITALY |
