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)

in Nyugat, Iván Hevesy sharply criticized “picture architecture" and Constructivism.44

Prior to his return, Kassák published his anthology Tisztaság könyve [Book of Purity] in the spring of 1926. [Figs. 36-37] This was the first publication since the collapse of the Soviet Republic which appeared in Budapest by legal means, indeed, it was even available commercially. In this volume, Kassák gathered together his poems written in exile (and their translations), novellas, manifests and artworks with a view to presenting his constructivist platform developed over five years as an émigré. Tisztaság könyve provided a framework for Kassák’s return home, presented the “new Kassák” to Budapest, and at the same time, closed the ten-year history of MA.

KASSÄK LAJOS

TISZTASÁG

KÖNYVE

[36. Lajos kassák, Tisztaság könyve [The Book of Purity], Horizont, Budapest, 1926, [front cover with the reproduction of Lajos kassák's collage]

[37. j Árpád Szélpál, Lajos Kassák's window display for the Mentor Bookstore in Budapest, 1926, photograph, PIM-kassák Museum, Budapest

44 Imre József Balázs, Magyar dada? Megjegyzések az IS folyóiratról (1924-1925) [Hungarian Dada? On the journal IS (1924-1925)], Létünk, 40/1., 2011, 55-63. Zsolt K. Horváth, Az új művészet társadalmi programja, Hevesy Iván, Palasovszky Ödön és a megélt jövő imperatívusza [The social program of new art, Iván Hevesy, Ödön Palasovszky, and the imperative of future past], 2000, 25/7-8., 2013, 53-61.

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