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)

Gábor Dobó: Generation Change, Synthesis and a Programme for a New Society - Dokumentum in Budapest (1926-1927)

EPILOGUE

A few months after the closure of Dokumentum, Kassák launched Munka [Work], a journal with a completely different profile. He brought several of the Dokumentum staff with him. Munka was not an art journal, and dealt above all with social, economic and political issues. It also served as the intellectual hinterland for the “Munka Circle”, consisting of young artists and workers and built on self-training, political activism and performances (such as speaking choirs). It kept a distance from official cultural institutions, carving out an alternative position for itself in cultural affairs. Kassák made use of his several years of experience in editing A Tett and the Budapest and Viennese editions of MA to build up autonomous structures (journal, gallery, free school and others) to take its message to a public beyond that of existing cultural institutions.

[20.] Tibor Déry, Énekelnek és meghalnak [They Sing and They Die], Genius, Budapest, 1928, [front cover with Lajos Kassák's illustration]

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