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Kassák’s “MA” – Illustrated Avant-Garde Magazine

Kassák, Lajos; Uitz, Béla (editors)

MA. Irodalmi és képzömüvészeti folyóirat. / MA. Irodalmi és képzőművészeti folyóirat. III. 10. [MA. (Today.) Review of Literature and Art. III. 10.]

Budapest: Lajos Kassák (Krausz J. és Társa), October 15, 1918. Illustrated title page and two illustrations. First edition. Text in Hungarian. (1), 110–124 p. Slightly trimmed. Artistically restored. In fine condition.

Lajos Tihanyi’s painting on title page, and two full page reproductions by him. Lajos Tihanyi (1885–1938) was an outstanding Hungarian Avant-garde painter and lithographer, lived and worked in Paris.

“MA” was the second avant-garde periodical edited by Lajos Kassák, the chief figure of the Hungarian avant-garde movement, who gathered the most outstanding artists around his magazines.

Kassák’s previous activist magazine “A Tett” (The Act) was banned by the authorities in 1916, due to it’s pacifism. Two months later the first issue of “MA” was published, edited with the same ideology and ambitious content but in a different format and with more emphasis on the international trends of the modern movements.

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Price: €700.00