Avant-garde and modernist magazines
Introduction
What is the relevance of avant-garde magazines printed on aging paper to a society which views the world in real time and through networked digital lenses? There are two common answers. Regardless of their age, the art they carry can be looked at anew since it is only its techniques that pale, and on the other hand, they provide us with a historical record of several generations of artists and writers. Although what strikes the eye first is a variety of their fabrics and of workings of the page, something estranged from the relentless linearity of digital bits and the UX of the glowing screen. Here, they also remind us that our lenses matter as well, their properties are variables.
In their day avant-garde magazines had been the closest to medium-specific publishing. Challenging the standardized procedures of the industry they tended to equalize the importance of writing, editing, illustrations, layout, typography, printing and distribution as mutually constitutive practices. The whole could become greater than the sum of its parts. Produced by makers many of whom were skilled in techniques of printing and mechanical reproduction these works are also fine examples of engaged publishing, a practice whose concerns extend from the content of pages to their ink and fiber. They are relevant not only for historians and art collectors but also for artists, publishers and theorists working today.
Although most of them are well known and indeed--worth a lot--today, only a few journals had any significant impact outside the avant-garde circles in their time. Many of them were published in only dozens of copies and distributed ad hoc. Regardless of their reach, contacts between magazines had been very active. Editors were not only aware of other initiatives across the continent or even continents but were regularly cross-publishing articles and reproductions and promoted other magazines on their own pages.
In the decades after World War II they turned into a domain of art and literary historians who consulted them in libraries and hard-to-access private collections. Artists of later generations were mostly unaware of the actual content of these works. This began to change first with occassional reprints and exhibitions of artists' publications and later, around the turn of the millennium, more radically, with the advent of digitization and the virtue of open access.
The International Dada Archive affiliated with The University of Iowa Libraries has been instrumental in introducing a general audience to many avant-garde magazines through its Digital Dada Library Collection. UbuWeb has featured these and other gems in its notorious Historical section. In recent years many libraries have followed suit by building open-access digital repositories.
We have been playing with the idea of creating a one-page guide to navigate the quickly growing presence of avant-garde magazines online for about a year. The decisive impulse came from the 'discovery' in the early August 2014 of the Fonds Paul Destribats section on the website of Centre Pompidou's Bibliothèque Kandinsky hosting high-quality digital facsimiles of dozens of titles that are, however, surprisingly poorly presented (all but one issue of each title are accessible only after changing characters in URLs). The result is a reference guide to avant-garde and modernist magazines printed in the early decades of the last century, which is hoped to be beneficial to artists, writers and scholars alike. Its main sections include a selection of issues meant to initiate the uninitiated, an index of some of the most referred journals, a collection of online collections containing hundreds more titles, and a short bibliography to a field recently emerged under the poetic banner of modern periodical studies.
The optical fiber and liquid crystals cannot supplant the paper fiber and ink, simply because they belong to different material modalities. So here we are challenged to reengineer in ourselves from the digital the texture, size, weight and smell of the printed matter where it matters the most.
Gallery
Selected magazine issues. See Index for many more.
Index
This index lists avant-garde and modernist periodicals, first issues of which appeared between 1890 and 1939. Besides serving as an engine of discovery, it is also made to help following bibliographic references to sources. A couple of technical notes.. The 'Online' column lists freely accessible digitized versions of each magazine; the abbreviations used for digital libraries are listed in the section below. The first column points to the wiki pages with more information about titles which in many cases also contain versions mirrored on Monoskop. Some columns are sortable. Information is sourced from a number of repositories and reference websites. The list is far from being exhaustive [1] [2], preference is given to periodicals accessible online. As with all sections on Monoskop this page is a work in progress and contributions are welcome. |
Title | Dates | Editors | Publisher | Text | Nos. | Online * | Scope |
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Entretiens politiques et littéraires | 1890-93 | Henri de Régnier, Paul Adam, et al. | Paris: Edmond Bailly | FR | 59; monthly; biweekly | BMT, Gallica | politics, literature |
Volné směry: umělecký mĕsíčník | 1896-1948 | Miloš Jiránek, Jan Preisler, František Xaver Šalda | Prague: Mánes Association of Fine Artists | CZ | monthly | BMT (1896-1902), IA (1900, 1905-08) | secessionist art, architecture, literature |
Mir iskusstva | 1898-1904 | St Petersburg | RU | art | |||
La Revue Musicale | 1901-12 | Louis Laloy | Paris | FR | 243+; irregular | BMT (1901-09) | music |
Vesy: nauchno-literaturnyy i kritiko-bibliograficheskiy ezhemesyachnik | 1904-09 | Valery Bryusov | Moscow | RU | monthly | symbolist literature | |
Poesia: rassegna internazionale | 1905-09, 1920 | Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Sem Benelli, Vitaliano Ponti | Milan | IT, FR, DE, EN, ES | 36; monthly | BMT, CIRCE | futurism, symbolism, literature |
Zolotoe runo | 1906-10 | N. P. Riabushinskii | Moscow: N. P. Riabushinskii | RU | monthly | symbolist art, literature | |
Futurisme: revista catalana | 1907 | [Ignasi Folch] | Barcelona: La Neotípia | CAT | 3 | ARCA, BVMC | futurism |
Prometeo | 1908-12 | Javier Gómez de la Serna | Madrid | ES | 38 | BNE | literature |
The Mask: A Quarterly Illustrated Journal of the Art of Theatre | 1908-29 | Edward Gordon Craig | Florence: A. Goldini | EN | 70 | BMT | theatre, art |
Ukraïnska khata | 1909-14 | Pavlo Bohatsky, Mykyta Shapoval | Kyiv | UA | 66; monthly | Monoskop (selection) | literature, politics |
Apollon | 1909-17 | St Petersburg | RU | monthly | Imwerden (1909-13) | symbolist literature, art, architecture, music | |
Thalia: tidning för scenisk konst och litteratur | 1910-13 | Gustav Åsbrink, Gustaf Collijn, Andreas Hallén | Stockholm | SW | theatre, music | ||
Der Sturm | 1910-32 | Herwarth Walden | Berlin | DE | 336; weekly (-1914), monthly (-1924), then quarterly | BMT | expressionist art and literature |
Rhythm: Art Music Literature | 1911-13 | John Middleton Murry | London: The Saint Catherine Press, Stephen Swift, Martin Secker | EN | 14; quarterly (Vol 1), monthly (Vol 2) | MJP | art, music, literature |
Die Aktion | 1911-32 | Franz Pfemfert | Berlin | DE | weekly (-1919), biweekly (-1926), then irregular | politics, literary expressionism | |
Simbolul | 1912 | Tristan Tzara | Bucharest: Tipografia Profesională | RO | 4 | BMMS | symbolist literature and art |
Trudy i dni | 1912-16 | Moscow: Musaget | RU | bimonthly | Ivanov Centre (1912) | symbolism | |
Revolution | 1913 | Hans Leybold | Munich: F.S. Bachmair | DE | 1 | IDL | expressionism |
The Glebe | 1913-14 | Alfred Kreymborg | Ridgefield, NJ: The Glebe (1913), New York: A. and C. Boni (1913-14) | EN | 10; irregular | BMT | literature |
Ocharovannyi strannik | 1913-16 | Victor Khovin | St Petersburg | RU | 10 | SHPL (5-7) | futurist poetry and art |
Futuristy: pervyy zhurnal russkikh futuristov | 1914 | Vasily Kamensky, David Burliuk | Moscow: Mysql | RU | 2 | SHPL, Monoskop | futurist poetry |
Blast: Review of the Great English Vortex | 1914-15 | Wyndham Lewis | London and New York: John Lane; Bell & Cockburn, Toronto | EN | 2 | MJP, Monoskop | literature, art |
Zeit-Echo: Ein Kriegs-Tagebuch der Künstler | 1914-15, 1917 | Otto Haas-Heye (Year 1), Hans Siemsen (Year 2), Ludwig Rubiner (Year 3) | Munich: Graphik (Year 1-2), Bümpliz-Bern: Zeit-Echo/Benteli (Year 3) | DE | 42; monthly; then biweekly | BMT | expressionism, literature, art |
The Little Review | 1914-29 | Margaret Anderson (1914-24), jh (Jane Heap, 1924-29) | Chicago (1914-17), San Francisco (1916), New York (1917-26), Paris (1929): Margaret Anderson | EN | monthly (1914-20), irregular (1920-29) | MJP (1914-22) | literature |
La Balza futurista | 1915 | Guglielmo Jannelli, Luciano Nicastro, Vann’Antò | Messina | IT | 3; biweekly | CIRCE | futurism |
Orpheu: revista trimestral de literatura | 1915 | Fernando Pessoa, et al. | Lisbon | PT | 2; quarterly | PG (1), PG (2) | literature |
291 | 1915-16 | Alfred Stieglitz | New York: 291 Publishing | EN | 12; monthly | Monoskop, BK, BMT, IDL, IDA (1-3, 5-12), UbuWeb (1-3, 5-12) | photography, art, literature |
Bruno's Weekly | 1915-16 | Guido Bruno | New York: Charles Edison | EN | 73; weekly | BMT | journalism, literature |
L'Élan | 1915-16 | Amédée Ozenfant | Paris: Société Générale d'Impression | FR | 10 | BMT, IDL, IDA | art |
Themis | 1915-16 | Rafael Sala Marco | Vilanova i la Geltrú | CAT, ES, FR, IT | 18; biweekly | ARCA | literature, art |
Der freie Strasse | 1915-18 | Raoul Hausmann, Johannes Baader | Berlin: Freie Strasse | DE | 10 | IDL (9-10), IDA (9) | dada |
Vell i nou: revista mensual d'art | 1915-21 | Santiago Segura | Barcelona: Art M. Bayés | CAT | monthly | BVMC | art |
SIC | 1916-19 | Pierre Albert-Birot | Paris: P. Albert-Birot | FR | 54; monthly; biweekly | BMT, IDL, IDA, Gallica | futurist, dada and cubist art and literature |
flamman: flamman: tidskrift för modern konst | 1916-21 | Georg Pauli | Stockholm: Bröderna Lagerström | SW | art | ||
MA: Internacionális aktivista müvészeti folyóirat | 1916-25 | Lajos Kassák, with Béla Uitz (1917-20) | Budapest (-1919), then Vienna | HU, DE | 76 | Monoskop (2 nos), BK (2 nos) | art, politics, literature |
The Blindman | 1917 | Marcel Duchamp, Beatrice Wood, Henri-Pierre Roché | New York: Henri Pierre Roché | EN | 2 | Monoskop, BK, Tout-fait, IDL (2), IDA (2), UbuWeb | dada, art |
Modernisme et compréhension: polémiques: revue d'art | 1917 | Alfreyd O. Montagne, Ené de Piro | Paris | FR | 2? | Monoskop, BK | art |
Rongwrong | 1917 | Marcel Duchamp, Beatrice Wood, Henri-Pierre Roché | New York | FR | 1 | tout-fait | dada, art |
Nord-Sud: revue littéraire | 1917-18 | Pierre Reverdy | Paris | FR | 16 | BMT | dada and surrealist literature and art |
Un enemic del Poble: fulla de subversió espiritual | 1917-19 | Joan Salvat-Papasseit | Barcelona | CAT | 18 | ARCA, BVMC | literature |
Dada: recueil littéraire et artistique | 1917-21 | Tristan Tzara | Zürich: Julius Heuberger (1-4/5), Paris: Au Sans Pareil (6-8) | FR, DE | 8 | BMT, Monoskop, IDL (1-7), IDA (1-7), UbuWeb (1-3) | dada literature and art |
391 | 1917-24 | Francis Picabia | Barcelona, New York, Zürich, Paris | FR | 19 | IDL (10 nos), IDA (9 nos), UbuWeb (9 nos), Gallica (9 nos) | dada |
Noi | 1917-25 | Bino Sanminiatelli, Enrico Prampolini | Rome | IT | 17; irregular | Monoskop, CIRCE | futurism |
De Stijl: Maandblad voor de moderne beeldende vakken (en kultuur) | 1917-20, 1921-32 | Theo van Doesburg | Delft (1917-18), Leiden (1918-21), Meudon: Theo van Doesburg | NL | 90; started monthly | IDL, IDA, UbuWeb (1917-20), DBNL (1917-20), DBNL (1921-32) | art, architecture, design |
Klingen | 1917-20, 1942 | Axel Salto, Poul Uttenreitter, Otto Gelsted | Copenhagen: Klingens Forlag | DK | 29; monthly | BMT | art |
Arc-voltaic | 1918 | Joan Salvat-Papasseit | Barcelona | CAT | 1 | ARCA, BVMC | literature, art |
L'Instant | 1918-19 | Joan Pérez-Jorba | Paris | CAT, FR | 13; monthly | ARCA | art, literature |
Grecia: revista de literatura | 1918-20 | Isaac del Vando Villar | Sevilla | ES | 50 | BNE | literature |
Roma futurista | 1918-20 | Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1-21), Giacomo Balla (53-73), et al. | Rome | IT | c71; weekly | BRBL (3 issues) | politics, futurist art and literature |
Der Ararat | 1918-21 | Hans Goltz | Munich: Goltzverlag | DE | 22 | IDL, IDA | dada |
Menschen: Buchfolge neuer Kunst | 1918-21 | Felix Stiemer, Heinar Schilling, Walter Hasenclever, Iwan Goll | Dresden: Dresdner Verlag | DE | 113 | IDL (12-28, 33-45) | dada |
Wendingen | 1918-21, 1923-25, 1927-31 | Hendrik Wijdeveld | Amsterdam: De Hooge Brug | NL | 144; monthly | TU Delft | architecture |
Pegaso | 1918-24 | Pablo de Grecia, José María Delgado, Rodolfo Mezzera | Montevideo | ES | 72; monthly | PPU, IA (1918-21), IA (1921-24) | literature |
Aujourd'hui: revue des valeurs nouvelles paraissant quatre fois l'an | 1919 | Claude Autant-Lara, Marcel Vion | Paris | FR | 1 | Monoskop, BK | music, literature |
Dinamo: rivista futurista | 1919 | Emilio Settimelli, Mario Carli and Remo Chiti (1-3), Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (4-7) | Rome | IT | 7; monthly | CIRCE | futurism |
Der Dada | 1919-20 | Raoul Hausmann, John Heartfield, George Grosz | Berlin | DE | 3 | IDL, IDA, UbuWeb | dada |
Exlex | 1919-20 | Ragnvald Blix | Oslo (-Aug 1919), Copenhagen | DK, SW | 96; weekly | art and satire | |
Der Zweemann | 1919-20 | F. W. Wagner, Christof Spengemann, Hans Schiebelhuth | Hanover | DE | 10 | IDL (3-6, 8-10), IDA (3-6, 8-10) | dada |
Formiści | 1919-21 | Tytus Czyżewski, Konrad Winkler, Leon Chwistek | Krakow | PL | 6 | Monoskop (2 issues), BK (2 issues) | art, literature |
Littérature | 1919-24 | Louis Aragon, André Breton, Philippe Soupault | Paris | FR | 33 | IDL, IDA, UbuWeb | surrealism, dada |
Die Pleite | 1919-24 | Wieland Herzfelde, George Grosz, John Heartfield | Berlin, Zürich, Vienna | DE | 11 | IDL, IDA | dada |
La Cité: urbanisme, architecture, art public | 1919-35 | Brussels: Lamertin | FR | 147; monthly; later irregular | BMT | architecture, art | |
Cannibale | 1920 | Francis Picabia | Paris | FR | 2 | IDL, IDA, UbuWeb (2) | dada |
Die Freude: Blatter einer neuen Gesinnung | 1920 | Wilhelm Uhde | Burg Lauenstein / Oberfranken | DE | 1 | IDL, IDA | dada |
Der Marstall | 1920 | Paul Steegemann | Hanover | DE | 2 | IDL, IDA | dada |
Projecteur | 1920 | Céline Arnauld | Paris | FR | 1 | IDL, IDA | dada |
Die Schammade | 1920 | Max Ernst, Johannes Baargeld | Cologne: Schloemilch Verlag | DE | 1 | IDL | dada |
Z | 1920 | Paul Dermée | Paris | FR | 1 | IDL, IDA | dada |
Orfeus: umělecký měsíčník | 1920-21 | Ladislav Vladyka, Karel Teige (1), Miloš Jirko (2-3) | Prague: Umělecký kruh | CZ | 3 | Monoskop (1), BK (1) | art, literature |
Ruimte | 1920-21 | Eugène de Bock, Victor Brunclair | Antwerp: De Sikkel | NL | 20 | ||
Action: cahiers de philosophie et d’art | 1920-22 | Florent Fels, Marcel Sauvage | Paris | FR | 10+1 | BMT, IDL, IDA | dada |
Proverbe: feuille mensuelle | 1920-22 | Paul Éluard | Paris: Paul Éluard | FR | 6 | Monoskop (1, 3, 5), IDL (1, 3, 5), IDA (3, 5), BMT (in process) | dada |
Ça ira! Revue mensuelle d'art et de critique | 1920-23 | Maurice Van Essche, Clément Pansaers, Paul Neuhuys | Antwerp: Eeckeren | FR | 20; monthly | IDL (16) | dada and expressionist art, literature, politics |
L'Esprit nouveau: revue internationale illustrée de l'activité contemporaine: arts, lettres, sciences | 1920-25 | Paul Dermée and Michel Seuphor, later Charles-Edouard Jeanneret and Amédée Ozenfant | Paris: Éditions de l'Esprit Nouveau | FR | 28 | art, literature | |
La Vie des Lettres et des Arts | 1920-26 | Nicolas Beauduin, William Speth | Paris: J. Povolozky | FR | 21 | literature, art | |
Jednodńuwka futurystuw | 1921 | Bruno Jasieński (1), Anatol Stern (2) | Krakow (1-2), Warsaw (2) | PL | 2 | Monoskop, Polona (1), Polona (2) | futurism |
New York Dada | 1921 | Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray | New York | EN | 1 | Monoskop, BK | dada |
Aventure | 1921-22 | René Crevel | Paris | FR | 3 | IDL, IDA | dada |
Gargoyle | 1921-22 | Arthur Moss | Paris | EN | Monoskop (3:5-6), BK (3:5-6) | literature, art | |
Kinofon: revija za filmsku kulturu | 1921-22 | Branko Ve Poljanski, Dragan Aleksić | Zagreb | CR | 12 | film | |
Nowa sztuka: miesięcznik artystyczny | 1921-22 | Anatol Stern, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz | Warsaw | PL | 2 | Monoskop, RCIN | poetry |
Spolokhi | 1921-23 | A.N. Drozdov (1-14), E.A. Gutrov (15-21) | Berlin | RU | 21; monthly | Librarium (5, 9) | art, literature |
Broom: An International Magazine of the Arts | 1921-24 | Harold A.Loeb, Alfred Kreymborg, et al. | Rome (1921-22), Berlin (1922-23), New York (1923-24) | EN | 21; monthly | BMT, IDL (1:1, 1:4, 2:1-2, 4:1) | dada-oriented art and literature |
Creación: revista internacional de arte | 1921-24 | Vicente Huidobro | Madrid (1), Paris (2) | ES | 3 | literature, art | |
Het Overzicht: Half-Maandelijks Tijdschrift: Kunst, Letteren, Menshei | 1921-25 | Michel Seuphor, Geert Pijnenburg (-1922), Jozef Peeters (1922-) | Antwerp | NL-BE | 24 | constructivist art, literature, music, architecture | |
Jar-Ptitza | 1921-26 | A.E. Kogan | Berlin (1-13), Paris (14): A.E. Kogan | RU | 14 | Librarium (1-6, 12, 14) | literature, art |
Zenit | 1921-26 | Ljubomir Micić | Zagreb (1921-23), Belgrade (1923-26) | SR, CR, DE, FR | 43; monthly | Monoskop, NBS, WDL, IDL (17-18) | constructivist, futurist and dada art and literature |
Život: výtvarný sborník | 1921-48 | Prague: Výtvarný odbor Umělecké besedy | CZ | 21 | Monoskop (2-10), BK (2-10) | art, literature | |
Veshch / Gegenstand / Objet | 1922 | El Lissitzky, Ilya Ehrenberg | Berlin: Skythen | RU, DE, FR | 2; monthly | Monoskop, NYPL, BMT (in process) | art |
Le Coeur à barbe: journal transparent | 1922 | Tristan Tzara | Paris: Au Sans Pareil | FR | 1 | BMT, Monoskop, IDL, IDA | dada |
Dada Jazz | 1922 | Dragan Aleksić | Zagreb | CR, FR | 1 | dada | |
Dada-Jok | 1922 | Ljubomir Micić, Branko Ve Poljanski | Zagreb | CR | 1 | art | |
Dada Tank | 1922 | Dragan Aleksić | Zagreb | CR | 1 | Monoskop, BK | dada |
Ultra: kirjallistaiteellinen aikakauslehti: tidskrift för ny konst och litteratur | 1922 | Lauri Haarla, Haggar Olsson, Raoul af Hällström | Helsinki | FI, SW | 8; biweekly | BMT | art, literature |
Akasztott Ember: az egyetemes szocialista kultura orgánuma | 1922-23 | Lajos Kassák | Vienna | HU | 5 | politics, art | |
Kino-fot: zhurnal kinematografii i fotografii | 1922-23 | Aleksei Gan | Moscow: Aleksei Gan | RU | 6 | selections | constructivist photography, film |
Klaxon: mensário de arte moderna | 1922-23 | Mário de Andrade | São Paulo | PT | 9 | Brasiliana, HDB, Monoskop | art, film |
Mécano | 1922-23 | Theo van Doesburg | Leiden | NL, FR, DE | 5 | BRBL (1, 3), Monoskop (1, 3), IDL (3) | dada, constructivism |
MSS | 1922-23 | Paul Rosenfeld, Alfred Stieglitz, Herbert J. Seligmann | New York | EN | 6 | Monoskop, BK, IDL (4) | art |
Egység, Irodalom, Művészet | 1922-24 | Aladár Komját, Béla Uitz | Vienna (1922, 1924), Berlin (1923-24) | HU | politics, literature, art | ||
Gostinitsa dlya puteshestvuyuschih v prekrasnom | 1922-24 | N. Savkin | Moscow | RU | 4 | SHPL (4) | imaginist poetry |
Secession | 1922-24 | Gorham Munson, et al. | New York | EN | 8 | Jacket2, BMT (1-5, 7-8), BK (1-5, 7) | literature |
Út | 1922-25 | Zoltán Csuka | Novi Sad | HU | literature, art | ||
Zwrotnica: sztuka teraźniej szości | 1922-23, 1926-27 | Tadeusz Peiper | Krakow | PL | 12; monthly | Monoskop, RCIN | art |
7 Arts: tous les arts | 1922-28 | Pierre Bourgeois, Victor Bourgeois | Brussels: L'Equerre | FR | 156 | constructivist art | |
Manomètre | 1922-28 | Émile Malespine | Lyon | FR | 9; irregular | Gallica, Monoskop | suridealism |
Contimporanul | 1922-32 | Ion Vinea, Marcel Janco | Bucharest | RO | 102; weekly (-1924), monthly | Monoskop (26-95), BCUC (26-95), BMMS (26-71) | literature, art |
Die Form: Zeitschrift für gestaltende Arbeit | 1922, 1925-35 | Walter Curt Behrendt (-1926), Walter Riezler (1926-) | Berlin | DE | UBH | architecture, design | |
Stavba: měsíčník pro stavební umění | 1922-38 | Karel Teige (1923-28), Oldřich Starý (1928-37), Jan E. Koula (1928-37), et al. | Prague: Klub architektů | CZ | monthly | architecture | |
Perevoz Dada | 1922-49 | Sergei Sharshun | Berlin, Paris | RU | 13 | IDL (1, 4) | dada |
Futurist Aristocracy | 1923 | Nanni Leone Castelli | New York | EN | 1 | Monoskop, BK | futurism |
Irradiador: revista de vanguardia | 1923 | Fermín Revueltas | Mexico | ES | 3 | Monoskop, eVols | art, poetry |
Laikmets saturs | 1923 | K. Zale, Arnolds Dzirkals | Berlin | LV | 4 | art | |
Russkoye iskusstvo | 1923 | Moscow: Tvorchestvo | RU, DE, FR, EN | 3 | art | ||
Disk: internacionální revue | 1923-25 | Jaromír Krejcar, Jaroslav Seifert, Karel Teige | Prague: Devětsil | CZ | 2 | Monoskop (1), BK (1) | literature, art |
LEF | 1923-25 | Osip Brik, Vladimir Mayakovsky | Moscow: Levy Front Iskusstv | RU | 7 | Monoskop, AdL | Productivist art, journalism, literature, photography |
G: Material zur elementaren Gestaltung | 1923-26 | Hans Richter | Berlin | DE | 5 | BRBL (1), Monoskop (1) | architecture, industrial design, photography, art, film |
The Next Call | 1923-26 | Hendrik Werkman | Groningen | NL | 9 | typography | |
Merz | 1923-32 | Kurt Schwitters | Hanover | DE, FR | 21 | IDL (1-2, 4, 6-9, 11, 20-21), IDA (1-2, 4, 6-9, 20-21) | dada |
L'Architecture vivante | 1923-33 | Jean Badovici | Paris: A. Morancé | FR | 21 | architecture | |
75HP | 1924 | Ilarie Voronca, Stéphane Roll, Victor Brauner | Bucharest | RO | 1 | Monoskop, BK, BMMS | art, literature |
Surréalisme | 1924 | Ivan Goll | Paris | FR | 1 | BMT, Monoskop | surrealism, literature |
Athena: revista de arte | 1924-25 | Fernando Pessoa, Ruy Vaz | Lisbon: Imprensa Libanio da Silva | PT | 5 | CFP | art, literature |
Correspondance | 1924-25 | Paul Nougé, Camille Goemans, Marcel Lecomte | Brussels | FR | 26 | surrealist art | |
MAVO | 1924-25 | Tatsuo Okada, Tomoyoshi Murayama | Tokyo: Chōryūsha | JP | 7 | art, literature | |
Punct: revistă de artă constructivistă internaţională | 1924-25 | Victor Brauner (2-9), Stéphane Roll | Bucharest | RO | 16 | Monoskop, BCUC, BMMS | constructivist art, architecture and literature |
Blok: czasopismo awangardy artystycznej | 1924-26 | Blok | Warsaw: Blok | PL | 11 | Monoskop, BK, JDL | constructivist art, architecture, theatre |
Pásmo: revue internationale moderne | 1924-26 | Devětsil (Artuš Černík) | Brno | CZ | 24; monthly | CAS | constructivist and poetist art and literature |
Bulletin de l'Effort moderne | 1924-27 | Léonce Rosenberg | Paris | FR | Gallica | art | |
ABC: Beiträge zum Bauen | 1924-28 | Hans Schmidt, Mart Stam, El Lissitzky, Emil Roth | Basel | DE | 10 | Monoskop | constructivist architecture |
La Révolution surréaliste | 1924-29 | Pierre Naville, Benjamin Péret, et al. | Paris | FR | 12 | Gallica | surrealism |
DAV | 1924-37 | Vladimír Clementis (1924-35), et al. | Prague, Bratislava | SK | quarterly | Monoskop (1 issue), BK (1 issue) | art, philosophy, literature, politics |
Aesthete 1925 | 1925 | Walter S. Hankel, et al. | New York | EN | 1 | IDL, IDA | literature |
Œsophage | 1925 | René Magritte, E.L.T. Mesens | 1 | dada, art | |||
Le Tour de Babel | 1925 | Constant Zarian | Paris | FR | 1 | Monoskop, BK | art, literature |
De Driehoek | 1925-26 | Jozef Peeters | Antwerpen | NL | 10 | constructivist art | |
Periszkop: a havi szemle új tipusa | 1925-26 | György Szántó | Arad | HU, RO | 5 | Monoskop (1-2), NYPL (1-2) | art |
Integral: revistă de sinteză modernă | 1925-28 | Max Herman Maxy | Bucharest: Tipografia Reforma socială, Paris | RO | 15 | BMMS | art |
Marie: journal bimensuel pour la belle jeunesse | 1926 | E.L.T. Mesens | Brussels | 4 | dada and surrealist art | ||
Dokumentum: művészeti és társadalmi beszámoló | 1926-27 | Lajos Kassák | Budapest | HU | 5 | Monoskop, BK (1-2, 4-5) | constructivist art and literature |
Kritisk Revy | 1926-28 | Poul Henningsen, Edvard Heiberg, et al. | Copenhagen: Poul Henningsen | DK | 7 | Kulturnet | architecture, politics |
Praesens: revue moderne | 1926, 1930 | Szymon Syrkus | Warsaw | PL, FR | 2 | Monoskop, BK | architecture, painting, photography, theatre, film, poetry |
Sovremennaya architektura | 1926-30 | Moisei Ginzburg (1926-28), Vesnin brothers (1926-28), Roman Khiger (1928-30) | Moscow: OSA | RU | 30; bimonthly | The Charnel-House (incomplete issues, some missing) | architecture |
bauhaus: zeitschrift für gestaltung | 1926-31 | Walter Gropius, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1926-28), Ernst Kallai (1928-30) | Dessau | DE | 15 | Monoskop (3 issues), Baunet (2 issues), BRBL (1 issue) | art, craft, design, architecture |
L'Art cinématographique | 1926-31 | Paris: Félix Alcan | FR | 8 | Monoskop, BK | film | |
Dźwignia | 1927-28 | Mieczysław Szczuka (1927), Teresa Żarnowerówna (1927-28) | Warsaw | PL | 8 | Monoskop (1-5, 7-8), RCIN (1-5, 7-8) | art, politics |
Tank: revue internationale de l'art vivant | 1927-28 | Ferdinand Delak, Avgust Černigoj | Ljubljana: Ferdinand Delak | SL, DE, FR, CR, EO | 3 | Monoskop | constructivist art, literature |
i10 | 1927-29 | Amsterdam: Arthur Lehning | NL, FR, DE, EN | DBNL | art | ||
Novyi LEF | 1927-29 | Vladimir Mayakovsky, Sergei Tretyakov | Moscow: Levy Front Iskusstv | RU | 24 | Monoskop, AdL | journalism, literature, photography, film |
Nova generatsiia | 1927-30 | Mykhailo Semenko | Kharkiv | UA | 36; monthly | literature | |
La Gaceta literaria: ibérica-americana-internacional | 1927-31 | Ernesto Giménez Caballero | Madrid | ES | 119; biweekly | BNE | literature, art, music, architecture |
ReD: měsíčník pro moderní kulturu | 1927-31 | Karel Teige | Prague: Devětsil | CZ | 30; monthly | Monoskop, NYPL | literature, art, photography, architecture |
Horizont: revue současné kultury v Československu | 1927-32 | Jiří Kroha, Jaroslav B. Svrček | Brno: Václav Roštlapil | CZ | 38 | Monoskop (1927), BK (1927) | architecture, art, theatre |
Close Up | 1927-33 | Kenneth Macpherson | Territet/CH (-1930) and London (1928-): Pool | EN | monthly (1927-30), quarterly (1931-33) | MHDL, Monoskop Log (selection) | film |
transition | 1927-38 | Eugene Jolas | Paris (1927-28), Colombey-les-deux-Eglises (1928-38) | EN | 27; monthly (-1928), quarterly (1928-30), then irregular | Gallica, Monoskop Log (selection, 1927-30) | surrealist, expressionist and dada literature and art |
Discontinuité | 1928 | Arthur Adamov, Claude Sernet | Paris | FR | 1 | Monoskop, BK | literature |
Urmuz: vitrină de artă nouă | 1928 | Geo Bogza | Câmpina | RO | 5 | Monoskop, BMMS | dada, constructivism |
50 u Evropi | 1928-29 | Zvezdan Vujadinović | Belgrade | SR | 3 | Nadrealizam, Monoskop | surrealism |
Distances | 1928 | Camille Goemans, Paul Nougé | Paris, Brussels | FR | 3 | surrealist art | |
Quosego: tidskrift för ny generation | 1928-29 | Cid Erik Tallqvist | Helsinki | SW | 4 | literature | |
Revista de Antropofagia | 1928-29 | Oswald de Andrade | São Paulo | PT-BR | 26 | Brasiliana, UbuWeb | literature, art |
Unu: avantgardă literară | 1928-32 | Saşa Pană | Bucharest | RO | 50; monthly | BCUC (some missing), BMMS (many missing), Monoskop (many missing) | literature |
Munka | 1928-39 | Lajos Kassák | Budapest | HU | 65 | art, literature, politics | |
L'Art Contemporain - Sztuka Współczesna | 1929-30 | Jan Brzękowski, Nadieżda Wanda Chodasiewicz-Grabowska | Paris | FR, PL | 3 | Monoskop, BK | art |
Documents | 1929-31 | Georges Bataille | Paris | FR | 15 | Gallica, Monoskop | surrealism |
Hèlix | 1929-30 | Joan Ramon Masoliver | Vilafranca del Penedés | CAT | 10 | ARCA | literature |
Adam | 1929-95 | Isac Ludo (1929-36), Miron Grindea (1936-40) | Bucharest (1929-40), London (1941-95) | RO, YI (1929-40), EN, FR (1941-95) | BMMS (1929-33) | literature | |
Art concret: groupe et revue fondés en 1930 à Paris | 1930 | Jean Hélion | Paris | FR | 1 | Monoskop, BK | art |
Zvěrokruh: měsíčník soudobého umění | 1930 | Vítězslav Nezval | Prague: Studentské knihkupectví | CZ | 2; monthly | Monoskop, BK | surrealist art and literature |
Alge: revistă de artă modernă | 1930-31 | Aureliu Baranga | Bucharest | RO | 6; irregular | Monoskop, BCUC, BMMS (1-3) | art |
Levá fronta | 1930-33 | Stanislav Neumann, et al. | Prague: Odeon and Průlom | CZ | weekly | CAS (1930-31) | politics, literature, art |
Kvart: sborník poezie a vědy | 1930-37, 1945-49 | Vít Obrtel | Prague | CZ | bimonthly | poetry, literature, theory | |
nová bratislava | 1931-32 | Bratislava | SK, CZ, DE | 4; monthly | art, design | ||
Nadrealizam danas i ovde | 1931-32 | Belgrade | SR | 3 | Nadrealizam, Monoskop | surrealist art and literature | |
Linja: czasopismo awangardy literackiej | 1931-33 | J. Kurek | Krakow | PL | 5 | Monoskop, BK | literature |
Spektrum | 1931-33 | Josef Riwkin et al | Stockholm | SW | literature, art, music, architecture, theory | ||
Ulise: revistă de literatură | 1932-33 | Lucian Boz | Bucharest: Tipografia Bucovina | RO | 4 | BMMS | literature |
Abstraction-création: art non-figuratif | 1932-36 | Paris: Abstraction-création | FR | 5; annually | art | ||
Mouvement: cinématographie, littérature, musique, publicité | 1933 | Maurice Aubergé | Paris | FR | 3 | Monoskop, BK | film, literature, music |
Le Phare de Neuilly | 1933 | Lise Deharme | Paris | FR | 4 | Monoskop, BK | surrealist literature |
PLAN: tidsskrift for bolig- og byggespørsmål | 1933-36 | Oslo: Socialist Architects' Society | NO | 4 | architecture | ||
Minotaure | 1933-39 | André Breton, Pierre Mabille | Paris: Albert Skira | FR | surrealism | ||
Ekran: měsíčník pro moderní film a fotografii | 1934 | František Kalivoda | Brno: Vladislav Binder | CZ, DE | 1; monthly | Monoskop, BK | film |
Karavan | 1934-35 | Artur Lundkvist | Stockholm | SW | 5 | literature | |
Axis: a quarterly review of contemporary ″abstract″ painting & sculpture | 1935-37 | Myfanwy Evans | London | EN | 8; quarterly | Monoskop, BK | art |
Telehor: The International Review New Vision | 1936 | František Kalivoda | Brno: Fr. Kalivoda | EN, CZ, DE, FR | 2; quarterly | Monoskop, BK | art, design |
Acéphale: religion, sociologie, philosophie | 1936-39 | Georges Bataille | Paris: G.L.M. | FR | 5 | Monoskop, BK | philosophy, religion |
aka: časopis pro průmyslové umění | 1937-38 | František Kalivoda | Brno: Klub průmyslového umění | CZ | 2 | Monoskop, NYPL | industrial design |
Plastique | 1937-39 | Sophie Taeuber-Arp | Paris, New York | FR, DE, EN | constructivist art | ||
Les Réverbères | 1938-39 | Jean Marembert (1-2), Pierre Minne (3-5), Michel Tapié | Paris | FR | 5 | Monoskop, BK | literature |
Update
Recently added issues (16-22 Aug 2014): Acéphale (+4 issues, now in full run), Bauhaus (+1), Blok (+7, full run), Dada Tank (+1, full run), DAV (+1), Disk (+1), Formiści (+2), Linja (+4), MAVO (context), MSS (+4, full run), Telehor (+1, full run), Zvěrokruh (+2, full run).
Collections online
- Periodicals in multiple languages
- Blue Mountain Project: Historic Avant-Garde Periodicals for Digital Research [BMT]. Holds full runs more than 30 titles published from 1848-1923 in several languages. Launched 2012. Runs Veridian, with fulltext search. Maintained by Princeton University.
- Magazines in Bibliothèque Kandinsky [BK]. Holds full runs of dozens of titles in several languages, high-quality reproductions, although they are hard to access on the website. Runs Archimed. Maintained by Centre Pompidou, Paris.
- Periodicals in Iowa Digital Library [IDL]. Contains 35 magazines, some incomplete. Runs CONTENTdm. Maintained by the University of Iowa Libraries.
- Digital Dada Library of International Dada Archive [IDA]. Thumbnail display. Maintained by the University of Iowa Libraries.
- Magazines in Digital Collections of Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library [BRBL]. Runs VuFind.
- Art Journals in digital section of Heidelberg University Library [UBH], titles published since 1841. Runs DWork, with fulltext search.
- Art periodicals in Digital Collections of New York Public Library [NYPL]. Literary periodicals. Runs BiblioCommons.
- Dada, Surrealism, & De Stijl Magazines on UbuWeb Historical [UbuWeb], 10 titles.
- Catalan
- Arxiu de Revistes Catalanes Antigues [ARCA], Catalan periodicals. Runs CONTENTdm. Maintained by Biblioteca de Catalunya.
- Czech
- Digital archive of periodicals in Institute of Czech Literature of Academy of Sciences Czech Republic [CAS]. Holds over 50 periodicals published in Czech since the early 20th century, some incomplete.
- Dutch
- Magazines section in Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren [DBNL], HTML versions of almost 400 periodicals published in Dutch since 18th century.
- Dutch architectural magazines in TU Delft Library, full runs of 7 titles.
- English
- Modernist Journals Project [MJP]. Holds two dozen Anglophone magazines. Maintained by Brown University and The University of Tulsa.
- Modernist Magazines Project. Holds selected issues of a few dozen Anglophone literary magazines. Maintained by Peter Brooker (University of Sussex) and Andrew Thacker (De Montfort University).
- Media History Digital Library [MHDL], 20 film magazines.
- Jacket2 Reissues, inventory of digitized magazines, primarily from the 1970s onwards. Edited by Danny Snelson.
- French
- Art periodicals in Gallica BnF [Gallica].
- Literary periodicals in Gallica BnF [Gallica].
- La Digithèque, Belgian Francophone art and literary journals. Accessible only through intranet. Maintained by Université libre de Bruxelles. [3]
- German
- Magazines section in Digital Library of Munich Digitization Center [MDZ], 16 titles.
- Illustrierte Magazine der Klassischen Moderne, illustrated German magazines from the first half of the 20th century.
- Italian
- CIRCE: Catalogo Informatico Riviste Culturali Europee has full runs and bibliographies to 70 mostly Italian-language periodicals of the 20th century. Runs Zetesis (rather challenging to navigate). Maintained by Carla Gubert (University of Trento).
- Japanese
- Polish
- Polish literary periodicals 1918-1939 in Digital Repository of Scientific Institutes [RCIN], 15 titles.
- Polish National Library [Polona].
- Portuguese
- Periodicals in digital section of National Library of Portugal.
- Periodicals in digital section of Library of Brazil [Brasiliana]. Runs DSpace.
- Hemeroteca Digital Brasileira, periodicals.
- Romanian
- Avangarda românească in Biblioteca digitală a Bucureştilor [BMMS], avant-garde periodicals in Romanian.
- Biblioteca Digitală BCU Cluj [BCUC], mostly Romanian periodicals.
- Russian
- Russian Futurist Books collection of the National Public Historical Library of Russia [SHPL], Russian futurist publications of 1910s-20s, including magazines.
- Russians Without Russia: Press Archive [Librarium], interwar Russian-language illustrated magazines published in Paris, Berlin, Harbin, Constantinople and Riga.
- Serbian
- Surrealism: European Context of the Serbian Surrealism [Nadrealizam], Serbian surrealist magazines and almanacs of 1920s-30s. Maintained by Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade.
- Magazines in Srpski citatni indeks.
- Slovenian
- Spanish
- Hemeroteca Digital of Biblioteca Nacional de España [BNE], digital library of Spanish periodicals, holds full runs of over 140 titles. Runs Pandora. Also provides overview of other digital libraries of Spanish periodicals.
- Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes. Hemeroteca [BVMC] holds 160 titles in Spanish and Catalan.
- Magazines in National Digital Library of Chile.
- Publicaciones Periódicas en Uruguay [PPU], 140+ periodicals published in Uruguay, 1800-1999.
- Ukrainian
Reference sites
- Dada & Modernist Magazines in Dada Companion, comprehensive guide to dada-related magazines. Maintained by Co Seegers.
- Revues Littéraires, bibliographic guide to Francophone literary magazines of the 20th century. (in French)
- List of Modern Magazines of Literary or Artistic Significance Operating During the Period 1890—1922, an index of Anglophone magazines. Part of The Modernist Journal Project.
- Index of Modernist Magazines contains short descriptions, manifestos, biographies of editors, selective lists of contributors, as well as bibliographies to some 60 Anglophone magazines. Started 2009, maintained by Suzanne W. Churchill of Davidson College.
- Indexes to little magazines
- Iskusstvo i arkhitektura russkogo zarubezhya: Zhurnaly i albomy, guide do Russian-language art magazines.
- DigiZeitschriften, list of German journals available online.
Literature
Journals
- Tijdschrift voor tijdschriftstudies, ed. Maaike Koffeman, Nijmegen, since 1997. (in Dutch)
- Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, eds. Mark S. Morrisson and Sean Latham, since 2010. [4]
Monographs and catalogues
- Roméo Arbour, Les revues littéraires éphémères paraissant à Paris entre 1900 et 1914, Paris: José Corti, 1956. (in French)
- Fritz Schlawe, Literarische Zeitschriften 1910-1933, Stuttgart: Metzler, 1962. (in German)
- Paul Raabe, Die Zeitschriften und Sammlungen des literarischen Expressionismus, Stuttgart: Metzler, 1964. (in German)
- Richard Admussen, Les petites revues littéraires, 1914-1939, Paris: Nizet, 1970. (in French)
- Dawn Ades (ed.), Dada and Surrealism Reviewed, intro. David Sylvester, London: Art Council of Great Britain, 1978. Catalogue of the exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London, Jan-Mar 1978.
- Andreas Berns, New York Dada Magazines, 1915-1921, Siegen: Universitätsgesamthochschule des Saarlandes, 1986.
- Yves Chevrefils Desbiolles, Les Revues d'art à Paris 1905-1940, intro. Françoise Levaillant, Paris: Ent'revues, 1993, 374 pp; new ed., Presses de l'université de Provence, 2014, 364 pp. (in French). Introduction and Contents (1993), Contents (2014), Review, [5].
- Sophie Levie (ed.), Reviews, Zeitschriften, Revues: Die Fackel, Die Weltbühne, Musikblätter des Anbruch, Le Disque vert, Mécano, Versty, Rodopi, 1994. [6]
- Gardening with Brains: eine Anthologie New Yorker Avantgarde-Zeitschriften der 1910-1920er Jahre: The Little Review, Camera Work, The Soil, Contact, Rongwrong, New York Dada, Broom, Secession, Fire !!, Berlin: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut, 1996. (in German). Contents.
- Virginia Hagelstein Marquardt (ed.), Art and Journals on the Political Front, 1910-1940, University Press of Florida, 1997, 336 pp. [7]
- Stephen Bury (ed.), Breaking the Rules: The Printed Face of the European Avant Garde 1900-1937, London: British Library, 2007. Catalogue of the exhibition in the British Library, London, Nov 2007-Mar 2008.
- Peter Brooker, Andrew Thacker (eds.), The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines, Vol. I: Britain and Ireland 1880-1955, Oxford University Press, 2009, 976 pp. [8]
- Robert Scholes, Clifford Wulfman, Modernism in the Magazines: An Introduction, Yale University Press, 2010, 352 pp. [9]
- Rossella Froissart Pezone, Yves Chevrefils Desbiolles (eds.), Les Revues d’art. Formes, stratégies et réseaux au XXe siècle, intro. Pierre Wat, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2011, 342 pp. (in French) Introduction, Contents, [10].
- Peter Brooker, Andrew Thacker (eds.), The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines, Vol. 2: North America 1894-1960, Oxford University Press, 2012, 1120 pp. [11]
- Peter Brooker, Sascha Bru, Andrew Thacker, Christian Weikop (eds.), The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines, Vol. 3, Europe 1880-1940, Oxford University Press, 2013, 1528 pp. [12] [13]
- Eric B. White, Transatlantic Avant-Gardes: Little Magazines and Localist Modernism, Edinburgh University Press, 2013, 272 pp. [14] [15]
- Rachel Mesch, Having It All in the Belle Epoque: How French Women's Magazines Invented the Modern Woman, Stanford University Press, 2013, 256 pp. [16]
Articles
- Timothy Shipe, "Dada Periodicals at Iowa", Books at Iowa 46 (Apr 1987), HTML.
- Irene E. Hofmann, "Documents of Dada and Surrealism. Dada and Surrealist Journals in the Mary Reynolds Collection", Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 22:2 (1996), pp 130-149, 197, HTML, PDF.
- Sean Latham, Robert Scholes, "The Rise of Periodical Studies", PMLA 121:2 (Mar 2006), pp 517-531, PDF.
- Aránzazu Ascunce Arenas, "One Hundred Little Magazines", in Arenas, Barcelona and Madrid: Social Networks of the Avant-Garde, Plymouth: Bucknell University Press, 2012, pp 79-112. [17]
- Celia Aijmer Rydsjö, AnnKatrin Jonsson, "'Published by Us, Written by Us, Read by Us': Little Magazine Networks", Global Review 1:1 (2013), pp 39-65, PDF, ePub. On the expatriate English-language magazines of the 1920s-30s.
Dissertations
- Isabelle Lorenz, La poetique/politique de la mise en pages: Les revues du surrealisme et de sa dissidence, City University of New York, 1991. (in French) [18]
- Jorge Maria Gibert Cardona, Estudio de las vanguardias a traves de las revistas vanguardistas catalanas (1907-1936), University of Navarre, 1996. Examines 25 Catalan magazines. [19]
- Brigitte Boulad, Aesthetic Theories in Avant-Garde Magazines and Serials, 1912-1922, George Washington University, 1997. [20]
- Emily Hage, New York and European Dada Art Journals, 1916-1926: International Venues of Exchange, University of Pennsylvania, 2005, 506 pp. [21]
- Victoria Kingham, Commerce, Little Magazines and Modernity: New York, 1915-1922, Leicester: University of De Montfort, 2009, 281 pp, PDF.
Bibliographies
- Paul Raabe (ed.), Index Expressionismus. Bibliographie der Beiträge in den Zeitschriften und Jahrbüchern des literarischen Expressionismus, 1910-1923, 18 vols., Nendeln/Lichtenstein, 1972. (in German)
- Richard Sheppard, Avantgarde und Arbeiterdichter in den Hauptorganen der deutschen Linken 1917-1922. Eine analytische Bibliographie mit einem Nachwort, Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1995. (in German)
- Armin A. Wallas, Zeitschriften und Anthologien des Expressionismus in Österreich. Analytische Bibliographie und Register, 2 vols., Munich, Providence, London, Paris: Saur, 1995, 1200 pp. (in German). Review.
- Suzanne W. Churchill, Adam McKible (eds.), Little Magazines & Modernism: New Approaches, Ashgate, 2007.
Links
- Magazine Modernisms: Dedicated to Modern Periodical Studies, blog.
- 1913: The Year of Modernism, online exhibition of modernist magazines by Princeton University Art Museum, 2013.
- Vintage Black Literary Arts Magazines collection on Pinterest.