Klaxon: mensário de arte moderna, No. 1-9 (1922-23) [Portuguese]

Lançada em São Paulo no mesmo ano que se realiza a Semana de Arte Moderna, Klaxon (1922-1923) é a primeira revista modernista do Brasil.

Em “O Alegre combate de Klaxon”, excelente introdução á edição fac-similar da revista, Mário da Silva Brito afirma que “em Klaxon aparece, sob forma de artigos, poemas, comentários, críticas de arte, piadas e farpas zombeteiras, o estado de espírito do grupo de jovens que elaborou a ideologia modernista”. Do comitê de redação, participam ativamente Menotti del Picchia e Guilherme de Almeida. Porém , ainda que a revista não o registre de forma explícita, sabe-se hoje, por intermédio de Aracy Amaral, que Mário de Andrade foi “diretor e líder da revista“. Mesmo assim, de um número para outro prevalece o espírito de grupo anunciado no texto introdutório : “KLAXON tem uma alma coletiva”. Essa apresentação tem todas as características de um manifesto e, embora venha assinada pela Redação, ela é, segundo Mário da Silva Brito, de autoria de Mario de Andrade. (source)

Published in São Paulo, Brazil
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commentary (Jorge Schwartz, in Portuguese)
Klaxon at Wikipedia (in Portuguese)

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Download Issue 1 (May 1922), Issue 2 (June 1922), Issue 3 (July 1922), Issue 4 (Aug 1922), Issue 5 (Sep 1922), Issue 6 (Oct 1922), Issue 7 (Nov 1922), Issue 8-9 (Dec 1922-Jan 1923).

Gerald Janecek: Zaum: The Transrational Poetry of Russian Futurism (1996)

“This is the most comprehensive treatment of a significant episode of the historical avant-garde period to which many refer but with little concrete background. According to Charlotte Douglas (Russian and Slavic Studies, NYU), Zaum ‘is an encyclopedic account of zaum or ‘beyonsense,’ the most distinctive feature of Russian avant-garde art and poetry early in the 20th century. Janecek has mined a myriad of arcane and inaccessible sources, gathered the entire historical record in one place, and made it readable and comprehensible. His account of zaum theory and practice will be indispensable for anyone interested in modern poetry and art. Certainly it will become a standard text for all students of Russian Futurism.'”

Publisher San Diego State University Press, 1996
ISBN 1879691418, 9781879691414
xi+427 pages
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Review: Walter Comins-Richmond (Slavic and East European J, 1997).

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Worldcat

PDF (removed on 2017-8-21 upon request of the publisher – read the Introduction)

See also Vladimir Markov’s Russian Futurism: A History

Vladimir Markov: Russian Futurism: A History (1968)

“Vladimir Markov’s Russian Futurism: A History is the classic in its field. Its learned account of Russian avant-garde poetics with respect to various forms and genres-poems, plays, artist’s books, manifestos-is still the first I turn to when I want to review the critical information about Futurist manifestos or Khlebnikov’s long poems and stories, or the collaborations of Goncharova and Kruchenykh.” – Marjorie Perloff

Publisher University of California Press, 1968
ISBN 9780520008113
467 pages
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Reviews: Helen Muchnic (Russian Review, 1969), Xenia Gasiorowska (Slavic and East European Journal, 1970), Maurice Friedberg (Problems of Communism, 1970), Edward Wasiolek (Modern Philology, 1972).

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