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)
Márton Pacsika: Purposeful Player of the New Instrument - Lajos Kassák and the Budapest MA
beyond the journal, recruiting members, publishing books and holding artistic matinees and evening performances for Budapest workers. Later, they established a drama school led by János Mácza and a school of painting at the initiative of Béla Uitz. They held regular lectures and seminars on artistic, literary and cultural themes at various points throughout the country.5 Finally, they opened a gallery in what was at that time a suburban street, Visegrádi utca. S)íe&t(íon X JAHR.HERAUSGEGE8EN VON FRANZ PFEMFERTNR VERLAG > OIE AKTION * BERLIN-WILMERBOOM HEFT 1,50 MARK DER STURM MONATSSCHRIFT FÜR KULTUR UND^PIE Kl \s 1 F IJudoll ft nun [2.] MA, 1/1., 1916, [front cover with Vincenc Benes's linocut], Budapest [3] Die Aktion, 10/13-14., 1920, [front cover with Aloys Wach’s woodcut], Berlin [4] Der Sturm, 8/7., 1917, [front cover with Rudolf Bauer’s illustration], Berlin The sophistication of MA as an institution shows up in the diversity - and the high degree of integration - of its portfolio. Every issue of the journal advertised the organization’s activities and the books it published. The items on sale in the gallery included copies of MA itself and the Berlin avant-garde journals Der Sturm [The Storm] and Die Aktion. In addition to advertising the MA exhibitions, the journal ran positive reviews of them and carried lists of artworks and illustrations. The borders between review, advertisement and catalogue blurred, especially after the opening the journal’s own exhibition space. [Figs. 3-4] MA soon became a public company, and was thus both a socialist-inspired art journal and a sustainable capitalist enterprise. In the Propaganda section, 5 The first MA matinee outside Budapest was held in Szeged on 29 December 1918 and was introduced by Gyula Juhász. 72
