The third of three volumes devoted to the cultural history of the
modernist magazine in Britain, North America, and Europe, this
collection contains fifty-six original essays on the role of
'little magazines' and independent periodicals in Europe in the
period 1880-1940. It demonstrates how these publications were
instrumental in founding and advancing developments in European
modernism and the avant-garde. Expert discussion of approaching 300
magazines, accompanied by an illuminating variety of cover images,
from France, Italy, Germany, Spain and Portugal, Scandinavia,
Central and Eastern Europe will significantly extend and strengthen
the understanding of modernism and modernity. The chapters are
organised into six main sections with contextual introductions
specific to national, regional histories, and magazine cultures.
Introductions and chapters combine to elucidate the part played by
magazines in the broader formations associated with Symbolism,
Expressionism, Futurism, Dada, Surrealism, and Constructivism in a
period of fundamental social and geo-political change. Individual
essays, situated in relation to metropolitan centres bring focussed
attention to a range of celebrated and less well-known magazines,
including Le Chat Noir, La Revue blanche, Le Festin d'Esope, La
Nouvelle Revue Francaise, La Revolution Surrealiste, Documents, De
Stijl, Ultra, Lacerba, Energie Nouve, Klingen, Exlex, flamman, Der
Blaue Reiter, Der Sturm, Der Dada, Ver Sacrum, Cabaret Voltaire,
391, ReD, Zenit, Ma, Contemporanul, Formisci, Zdroj, Lef, and Novy
Lef. The magazines disclose a world where the material constraints
of costs, internal rivalries, and anxieties over censorship ran
alongside the excitement of new work, collaboration on a new
manifesto and the birth of a new movement. This collection
therefore confirms the value of magazine culture to the expanding
field of modernist studies, providing a rich and hitherto
under-examined resource which helps bring to life the dynamics out
of which the modernist avant-garde evolved.
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