Vidosava Golubović, Irina Subotić: Zenit, 1921-1926 (2008) [Serbian, English]

A monograph about the Yugoslav magazine Zenit whose founder and editor Ljubomir Micić was the main progenitor of the avant-garde in Croatia and Serbia during the first half of the 1920s.

“Through the relentless publication of manifestos and statements in issue after issue of Zenit, Micić gave shape to a specifically Yugoslav avant-garde aesthetics: Zenitism, counterpointing the redemptive force of the Balkanic-Slavic ‘barbarogenius’ over against the decadence of Western Europe. Over the course of its five years of publication, Zenit accreted successive influences from international Expressionism, Futurism, Dada, and Constructivism to advance its cultural-political goals. Its political orientations were similarly idiosyncratic, eclectic, and fluctuating: a blend of Serbian nationalism, pan-Slavism, pacificism, Bolshevism (though often celebrating the anti-Western Russian character of Lenin and Trotsky rather than their Soviet politics), mystical new-age thought, internationalism, and anarchism. Zenit managed to garner a significant degree of international attention both for its solicitation of work for publication and for its subsidiary activities, such as the First Zenit International Exhibition of New Art held in Belgrade in April 1924. The example of Zenit and the aesthetic ideology of Zenitism inspired other important publications across the region, such as the Hungarian-language journal Út and the Slovenian journal Tank, as well as individual practitioners of avant-garde such as the Dadaist poet Dragan Aleksić and the Slovenian cubo-futurist Srečko Kosovel.” (Source)

The book includes two lead essays by Vidosava Golubović and Irina Subotić in English translation (pp 469-484).

Publisher Narodna biblioteka Srbije, Belgrade; Institut za književnost i umetnost, Belgrade; and SKD Prosvjeta, Zagreb, 2008
ISBN 867035182X, 9788670351820
516 pages
via Dubravka/MoW

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Manifiestos, proclamas y polémicas de la vanguardia literaria hispanoamericana (1988) [Spanish]

“El presente volumen constituye una suma de los textos más importantes mediante los cuales se debatió en toda América Latina el famoso movimiento de las vanguardias artísticas, acción renovadora de sintonía internacional cuyos efectos se hicieron sentir en todos los niveles de la vida social, política y cultural del mundo y de nuestro continente. A la vez, en sus protagonistas hispanoamericanos, acentuó el sentimiento de su condición común. Por ello es necesario dejar de considerar tal movimiento como un mero eco o reflejo de los vanguardismos europeos, para revelar, por el contrario, su consanguinidad continental y universal. El formidable trabajo realizado por Nelson Osorio para la edición de esta obra nos permite contar con una antología única en su tipo, ya que por primera vez se recogen textos programáticos, trabajos modernistas que se articulan al movimiento y documentos no literarios dispersos en numerosas publicaciones de difícil acceso para el lector, verdadero capítulo de las ideas estéticas latinoamericanas en el que se incluyen autores como Amado Nervo, Rubén Darío, Leopoldo Lugones, Luis Llorens Torres, Vicente Huidobro, Jorge Luis Borges, César Vallejo, José Carlos Mariátegui y Magda Portal, entre otros.”

Selected, edited, with introduction, bibliography and notes by Nelson Osorio T.
Publisher Biblioteca Ayacucho, Caracas, Venezuela, 1988
ISBN 9802760633, 9789802760633
xl+417 pages
via Natalie Johnson

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Ramon Gómez de la Serna: Ismos (1921/1943) [Spanish]

A monograph by the Spanish writer, dramatist and avant-garde agitator (1888-1963) providing a survey of 27 art styles of the period.

Apollinerismo, Picassismo, Futurismo, Negrismo, Luminismo, Klaxismo, Estantifermismo, Toulouselautrecismo, Monstruosismo, Archipenkismo, Maquinismo, Lhoteísmo, Simultaneísmo, Jazzbandismo, Humorismo, Lipchitzmo, Tubularismo, Ninfismo, Dadaísmo, Charlotismo, Surrealismo, Botellismo, Riverismo, Novelismo, Serafismo, Ducassismo, Daliismo.

First edition as El cubismo y todos los ismos, Biblioteca nueva, Madrid, 1921; new ed. as Ismos, Biblioteca nueva, Madrid, 1931.

Publisher Poseidón, Buenos Aires, 1943
448 pages

Commentary: Andrés Soria Olmedo (in English, 1995).

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See also Reina Sofia catalogue on Ismos (Spanish, 20 MB, 2002), and Lissitzky and Arp’s Die Kunstismen / Les Ismes De L’Art / The Isms of Art (1925).