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)

Merse Pál Szeredi: Kassákism - MA in Vienna (1920-1925)

Qa Ira! [It’ll be fine], as well as the Dutch journal De Stijl [The Style] edited by Theo van Doesburg.13 14 [Fig. 7]

These journals were the most complex mediums of avant-garde thinking and self-representation of their time. Behind the papers stood groups and movements, and behind the movements were artists, whose personal networks did not necessarily correspond with those of the journals. This was also the case for Kassák who, during his émigré years, left Vienna only a few times, and thus came into contact with foreign artists mainly through his editorial letters written on behalf of MA. To describe this divergence of personal and institutional contacts, Hubert van den Berg proposes an adaptation of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s concept of the rhizome. The rhizome is a non- hierarchical network whose individual elements connect with one another in

[6.] Reproductions of works by Kurt Schwitters, MA, 6/3., 1921,28-29., Vienna

13 For more detail, see Merse Pál Szeredi, MA/De Stijl, Theo van Doesburg esete a magyar avantgárddal [MA/De Stijl, Theo van Doesburg’s case with the Hungarian avant-garde], Enigma, 24/90., 2017, 74-90.

14 Hubert van den Berg, Mapping Old Traces of the New, Towards a Historical Topography of Early Twentieth-Century Avant-Carde(s) in the European Cultural Field(s), Arcadia, 41/2., 2006, 341-343.

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