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)

Judit Galácz: Avant-Garde Experiments Committed to Paper - the MA “Music and Theatre Special Issue” (1924)

SPECIAL THEATRICAL ISSUES OF AVANT-GARDE JOURNALS

The “Music and Theatre Special issue" of MA that focused on theatre - with a few texts on music as well - belongs to the rank of contemporary avant-garde journals that dedicated special issues to discourses around the new forms of theatre. The theatrical avant-garde appeared on these journals' horizons not only because of their innovation and agitation, but also because this field was expressly regarded as a problem of fine arts. In 1926, the American The Little Review published a similar issue to the one edited by Lajos Kassák, as this issue responded to the International Theatre Exhibition, organized by Friedrich Kiesler in New York. [Fig. 3] Further issues of this New York journal remained in Kassák’s archives, such as the 1923 spring “Exiles’ Number", whose front cover featured a set design by Fernand Léger for the ballet La Création du monde [The Creation of the World], written by Blaise Cendrars and Darius Milhaud. [Fig. 4] These designs were reproduced in the MA “Music and Theatre Special issue” as well. It is also important to mention the Romanian Contimporanul [Contemporary] and the Italian futurist journal Noi [Us], which also published special thematic issues on theatre in 1924. Noi included the same texts by F. T. Marinetti and Enrico Prampolini, which Kassák published. [Fig. 5]

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[3.] The Little Review, 11/2., 1926, [front cover with Friedrich Kiesler’s illustration], New York [5.] Noi, 1/6-9., 1924, [front cover with Enrico Prampolini’s typography], Rome

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