Acknowledgments p. 14 Introduction p. 16 National Traditions p. 47 Quousque Tandem p. 50 The Historical Development of Modern Art p.

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1 Acknowledgments p. 14 Introduction p. 16 National Traditions p. 47 Quousque Tandem p. 50 The Historical Development of Modern Art p. 52 The Czechness of our Art p. 56 Josef Manes Exhibition at the Topic Salon p. 57 Wyspianski as a Painter-Poet (Personal Impressions) p. 60 Excerpts from Jan Matejko p. 61 On the Artist's Calling and the Tasks of Art p. 64 Wyspianskis's Stained Glass Windows at the Wawel Cathedral p. 66 Excerpt from Hungarian Art p. 71 Exhibition Committee of University Youth (Belgrade), Invitation Letter (1904) p. 74 New Alternatives p. 79 Honore Daumier: A Few Notes and His Work p. 83 The Prism and the Pyramid p. 86 Surface and Space p. 92 On the Virtue of Neo-Primitivism p. 95 Introduction to the second Skupina exhibition catalogue p. 98 The Intellectual Basis of Modern Time p. 99 Fragments of correspondence p. 103 The Beauty of Modern Visual Form p. 109 The Spirit of Change in Visual Art p. 112 Excerpt from Cubism p. 116 Forms and the Soul p. 120 Investigative Art p. 121 The Ways Have Parted p. 125 The Role of the Artist in Society p. 129 Fragment from "Light the Torches" p. 134 The Exhibit of Painting and Drawing: Derain, Forain, Galanis, Iser p. 136 Fragment from Tinerimea artistica exhibition catalogue p. 136 New Guidelines in Art p. 136 Statement p. 138 Warning p. 138 The Activation of the Avant-Garde p. 143 The Possessed p. 146 Listen! p. 147 The Futurists p. 150 Futurism: New Possibilities in Art and Life p. 152 To Accompany Carlo D. Carra's Painting Anarchist Funeral p. 157 Program p. 160

2 Advertisement p. 162 The Poster and The New Painting p. 163 For the Comprehensive Ma Exhibition p. 166 Lajos Tihanyi p. 167 Janos Mattis-Teutsch p. 169 Onward on Our Way p. 171 The Galimbertis p. 173 To the Holy Rebel p. 177 Notes p. 178 On Expressionism p. 179 Expressionism (Fragments from a Lecture) p. 181 The Struggle for A New Form p. 182 Overcoming Art p. 184 To the Polish Nation: A Manifesto Concerning the Immediate Futurization of Life p. 187 Manifesto Concerning Futurist Poetry p. 191 A Nife in the Stomak: Futurist Speshal Ishew 2 p. 193 And Yet! p. 196 The Obstinates and Friends p. 197 Art and Revolution p. 201 Manifesto p. 204 Program of the Bauhaus in Weimar p. 204 Manifesto p. 207 On the First Exhibition of Bauhaus Student Work p. 208 Proclamation for the Communist Republic! p. 212 Proclamation for Art! p. 213 Soviet Hungary since March 21 p. 215 Art of the Revolution - Or Art of the Party? p. 216 Excerpts from "Activism" p. 219 We Need a Dictatorship! p. 225 Mass Culture, Mass Art p. 227 Letter to Bela Kun in the Name Of Art p. 230 Letter p. 233 Form as the Agent of Social Change p. 237 Statement p. 240 Defeatism in Art p. 241 Excerpts from New Form in Painting and the Misunderstanding Arising Therefrom p. 245 On Deformation in Pictures p. 251 Excerpt from "About Multiplicity of Reality in Art" p. 253 On Green Eye and his Painting p. 260 Aesthetic Sketches p. 261 Point of Departure p. 265

3 City Mass Machine p. 267 Notes on Russian Art p. 272 The Reaction of the Environment p. 280 The Zenithist Manifesto p. 284 Manifesto p. 292 Man and Art p. 293 Excerpts from "The Spirit of Zenithism" p. 296 Expressionism is Dying p. 300 International Dada p. 309 Dada Manifesto p. 313 What is Dadaism and What Does it Want in Germany? p. 318 The Black Tomcat p. 320 Green-Headed Man p. 324 The First Gathering of the Mad in a Garbage Bin p. 328 Manifesto p. 332 Green Donkey Pantomime p. 336 Manifesto (Festo-Mani) p. 340 Selections from Dada-Nyet p. 345 Dadaism p. 348 Kurt Schwitters Dada p. 351 Tatlin: HPs + Man p. 354 Zenith Express p. 356 Dada p. 359 The Modern Art Bazaar p. 363 Picture p. 364 Painting and Poetry p. 367 Creative Dada p. 369 Excerpts from "Dadaism" p. 369 Excerpts from "Dada" p. 376 International Constructivism in Germany and Austria p. 385 Congress of International Progressive Artists: A Short Review of the Proceedings p. 389 Manifesto of the Commune p. 395 Second Manifesto of the Commune p. 395 The International Exhibition in Dusseldorf p. 397 The Stand Taken by the Vienna Ma Group toward the First Dusseldorf Congress of Progressive Artists p. 400 International Constructivist Creative Union p. 401 The Exhibition of Russian Artists p. 405 On the Russian Exhibition p. 408 The Russian Exhibit in Berlin p. 409 The Russian Exhibition in Berlin p. 410 Notes To the Russian Artist Exhibition in Berlin p. 413

4 Through the Russian Exhibition in Berlin p. 414 To the Artists of All Nations! p. 418 The Provisional International Moscow Bureau of Creative-Artist Questions to the Hungarian Activists and the Hungarian Activists Reply p. 420 Moholy-Nagy p. 424 Lajos Kassak p. 425 Picture Architecture p. 427 The Great Festival in Moscow p. 432 Constructivism p. 435 Correction (to the Attention of De Stijl) p. 436 Manifesto p. 443 On the New Theatrical Art p. 444 The Electro-Mechanical Show p. 447 Theater as an Artistic Phenomenon p. 448 The Hungarian Activist Movement p. 449 Production-Reproduction p. 454 KURI Manifesto p. 455 Bauhaus Manifesto p. 457 Film Sketch Dynamics of a Metropolis p. 458 Life at the Bauhaus p. 462 Film at the Bauhaus: a Rejoinder p. 465 Herwarth Walden p. 467 A Call for Elementarist Art p. 470 Statement from Der Sturm catalogue p. 470 Dynamic-Constructive System of Forces p. 471 Aims of the Pre Theater p. 471 The Arts Abroad p. 472 Constructivist Art and Peri's Spatial Constructions p. 473 Second Presentist Declaration - Addressed to the International Constructivists p. 476 The Dynamic Principle of Cosmic Construction, as Related to the Functional Significance of Constructive Design p. 477 Abstract Design from Suprematism to the Present p. 479 Prague p. 482 Toward Constructivism p. 483 Photography in Reverse p. 483 Concrete Light p. 485 International Constructivism in Central Europe p. 487 Mechano-facture p. 489 Editorial-Statement p. 491 Untitled statements on Suprematism and painting p. 492 Theses on New Art p. 493

5 At Attempt to Explain the Misunderstandings Related to the Public's Attitude to New Art p. 495 What Constructivism Is p. 496 B=2 p. 497 Photomontage p. 503 On Abstract Art p. 503 Shimmy at the Latin Quarter Graveyard p. 505 A Categorical Imperative of the Zenithist School of Poetry p. 509 Barbarogenius p. 511 The New Art p. 512 Zenithosophy: Or the Energetics of Creative Zenithism p. 514 Barbarism as Culture p. 518 Toward the Documentation of the European Cultural Crisis: Five Years of Zenithism p. 521 Upside Down p. 521 Beyond-Sense Poetry p. 527 Zenithism through the Prism of Marxism p. 528 Notes on Painting p. 533 Art Notes p. 533 Victor Brauner p. 534 Aviograma p. 535 Untitled statement p. 537 Pictopoetry p. 538 Assessments p. 538 The Contimporanul Exhibition (Notes) p. 539 The First Contimporanul International Exhibition p. 540 Marcel Janco p. 541 Visual Chrona-metering p. 543 Conversations with Lucian Blaga p. 544 Grammar p. 547 Voices p. 549 The International Exhibition Organized by the Magazine Contimporanul p. 551 Man p. 554 Surrealism and Integralism p. 555 From Futurism to Integralism p. 557 Black Art p. 560 Note about Sculpture p. 563 Initiation in the Mysteries of an Exhibition: The Sensational Pronouncements of Militsa Petrascu and Marcel Janco p. 564 Cubism p. 566 Coloring p. 567 Urmuz p. 568

6 Greetings! p. 571 Marij Kogoj's Black Masks p. 572 Theater Co-op p. 573 Tank Manifesto p. 574 The Constructivist Group in Trieste p. 575 Poetism p. 579 Constructivism and the Liquidation of Art p. 583 Artificialism p. 589 The Poet (Lecture Given on the Occasion of an Exhibition Opening) p. 590 Excerpts from "Poetism Manitesto" p. 593 Ultraviolet Paintings, or, Artificialism (Notes on the Paintings of Styrsky and Toyen) p. 601 Hungarians in Exile p. 609 Back to the Workbench p. 610 Architecture p. 612 The Twilight of Ideologies p. 615 Excerpt from New Painting in Hungary p. 616 Advertisements p. 621 Letter to Erich Buchholz p. 623 Bauhaus Resonances p. 627 At the Bauhaus p. 628 Ten Years of the Bauhaus p. 632 Excerpts from "Ten Years of Bauhaus" p. 637 Poland p. 643 The Contemporary Style p. 645 Rules of the S.I. Witkiewicz Portrait-Painting Firm p. 646 Unism in Painting p. 649 Sculpture and Solid p. 658 Plastic Art as the Summary of Culture Life p. 659 Communique of the a.r. Group p. 660 Excerpts from Composition of Space: Calculations of Space-Time Rhythm p. 661 Malevich in Poland p. 664 Funeral of Suprematism p. 664 Art and Reality p. 666 Prague p. 675 Introduction to the Fronta Almanac p. 676 The Generation's Corner p. 676 Founding Manifesto p. 678 Amsterdam and Stuttgart p. 681 Photography Unparalleled p. 683 Painting and Photography p. 684 Debate on Erno Kallai's Article Painting and Photography p. 689

7 Reply p. 695 Letter to Laszlo Moholy-Nagy p. 698 Vanguard Skirmish' in Stuttgart p. 699 Photography - The Pictorial Art of the Present Day p. 700 Opening of the Werkbund Exhibition Film and Photo p. 701 Form, Photo and Film p. 701 Bucharest p. 703 Reflections of Cubism p. 705 Fragments from "A Contribution to Our History of Modernism: What A Young Painter Tells p. 706 Us" Manifesto p. 708 M. H. Maxy p. 708 Victor Brauner p. 710 Marinetti p. 711 F. T. Marinetti p. 711 Our Own Futurism p. 713 The Rehabilitation of the Dream p. 714 Germany p. 717 Ten Years of the November Group p. 718 Art and the General Public p. 719 Vision and the Law of Form p. 721 Theo van Doesburg p. 724 Politics of Art in the Third Reich p. 726 Credits p. 730 Biographical Notes p. 732 Table of Contents provided by Blackwell's Book Services and R.R. Bowker. Used with permission.