MA (magazine)
MA: Internacionális aktivista müvészeti folyóirat (abbreviation for Magyar Aktivizmus ( German Hungarian activism ), allusion to the Hungarian ma ( German today )) was a Hungarian avant-garde literary and art magazine. It was published from 1916 to 1925, first in Budapest and later in Vienna .
history
In 1916 the journal A Tett (Die Tat) , published by Lajos Kassák in Budapest , was banned after articles from countries with which Austria-Hungary was at war had appeared. Thereupon Kassák founded Ma , the first edition appeared on November 1, 1916. On July 14, 1919 Ma was also banned by the government of the new Hungarian Soviet Republic , Kassák left Hungary and re-founded the magazine on May 1, 1920 in Vienna , where she until December 1, 1925. In 1926 Kassák returned to Budapest and founded the journal Dokumentum as successor to Ma , which was discontinued after only five issues.
Artistic orientation
In MA , texts and images from various modernist directions appeared, e. B. Futurism , Expressionism , Cubism , Constructivism and Dadaism .
The authors who contributed to MA include: B. Hans Arp , Sándor Barta , Blaise Cendrars , Jean Cocteau , Alexic Dragan , Claire Goll , Vicente Huidobro , Richard Huelsenbeck , Ernő Kállai (under the pseudonym Péter Mátyás), Fernand Léger , Franz Liebhard , Ljubomir Micic , Gorham Munson , Nikolai Punin , Hans Richter , Andor Sugár and others. All texts were published in Hungarian, and in recent years some texts have been in German.
Visual artists whose works appeared in MA were z. B. Sándor Bortnyik , Theo van Doesburg , Petar Dobrović , Albert Gleizes , Lajos Gulácsy , Raoul Hausmann , Iván Hevesy , Vilmos Huszár , János Kmetty , Jacques Lipchitz , El Lissitzky , Hans Mattis-Teutsch , Laszlo Moholy-Nagy , Piet Mondrian , Jószef Nemes Lampérth , Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud , Francis Picabia , Man Ray , Oskar Schlemmer , Wladimir Tatlin and Béla Uitz .
swell
- Paul Kárpáti : Ma . In: Herbert Greiner-Mai (ed.): Small dictionary of world literature . VEB Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig 1983. p. 170.
- Entry at DADA Companion
- Entry at Monoskop
literature
- Júlia Szabó: A magyar aktivizmus müvészete: 1915–1927 . Budapest: Corvina Kiadó, 1981 ISBN 963-13-0912-6