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)

human living conditions as the most important function of art.38 Taking its direction from the functionalist and architecture-oriented turn in international Constructivism, from 1923, MA emphasized the transformation of the “new man’s” sphere of life, lifestyle reform initiatives (such as hygiene and sport) and the propagation of architectural-technological output, which Kassák regarded as identical in value to art. This notion was further honed from 1926 in Kassák’s new journal Dokumentum [Document], established in Budapest.

Despite its international orientation and horizons, most editions of MA were in Hungarian. Kassák edited a total of three foreign-language editions, the first of which appeared in 1923. The “German Special issue” published texts from constructivist artists who imagined the unity of art and technology

Mura Zyperovitsch orosz táncosnő. Felvétel a Bécsben élő magyar művészek német nyelvű „Ma" estélyéről. Az érdekes estéről a bécsi sajtó elismeréssel irt.

[33.] MA, 10/2., 1925, [front cover with Lajos Kassák’s typography], Vienna

[34.] Mura Zyperowitsch’s dance at MA’s 1st German Propaganda Evening, Ma Este, 3/14., 1925,

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38 Ludwig Kassák, Leben wir unsere Zeit [Let us live in our times], MA, 10/2., 1925, 2-5. Published in Hungarian in the Cluj-based journal Korunk, 1/6., 1926, 455-457.

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