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Zwrotnica
(, ) was an avant-garde magazine which was one of the significant publications in Poland. It appeared in Kraków in two periods: first between 1922 and 1923, and then between 1926 and 1927. Despite its short run, it is the first Polish avant-garde magazine that had an international audience. History and profile was established by Tadeusz Peiper in Kraków in 1922, and its first issue appeared in May that year. After being published for one year, it ceased publication. Peiper was the editor-in-chief of between its start in 1922 and its closure in October 1923. The magazine was restarted in 1926 and was permanently closed down in 1927. first adopted a futurist approach, but the magazine abandoned it in its second period between 1926 and 1927. Later, the magazine became an avant-garde publication which was the major platform for a Polish group of avant-garde artists from Kraków called Awangarda Krakowska. One of them was Julian Przyboś who published both poems and prose in th ...
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Julian Przyboś
Julian Przyboś (5 March 1901 – 6 October 1970) was a Polish poet, essayist and translator, one of the most important poets of the Kraków Avant-Garde. Life Przyboś was born in Gwoźnica near Strzyżów to a peasant family. From 1912, he attended the Konarski Secondary School in Rzeszów. A supporter of socialist ideals, in 1920 he volunteered for the Polish Army during the Polish–Soviet War. In 1920–1923 he studied Polish studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. He was one of the contributors of '' Zwrotnica'', magazine of the avant-garde artists in Kraków. Przyboś worked as a teacher in Sokal (1923–1925), Chrzanów (1925–1927), and Cieszyn (1927–1939). In Cieszyn, he published his works in '' Zaranie Śląskie'' (Silesian Dawn) (1929–1938). He also published in many other magazines before and after World War II. In December 1939 Przyboś relocated to Lviv. In 1941 he was arrested by the Gestapo, the Nazi German secret police. After World War ...
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Tadeusz Peiper
Tadeusz Peiper (3 May 1891 – 10 November 1969) was a Polish poet, art critic, theoretician of literature and one of the precursors of the avant-garde movement in Polish poetry. Born to a Jewish family, Peiper converted to Catholicism as a young man and spent several years in Spain. Marci Shore ''Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918–1968.''''Yale University Press'' 2006, . He was a co-founder of the ''Awangarda krakowska'' ('Kraków Avant-garde') group of writers.Nina Kolesnikoff ''...Evolution from Futurism to Socialist Realism'', p. 37. '' Wilfrid Laurier University Press'' 1982, . In 1921, in the Second Polish Republic, he founded the ('Railroad switch') monthly, devoted mostly to avant-garde movements in contemporary poetry. Although short-lived, the magazine (issued until 1923 and then briefly reactivated between 1926 and 1927), paved the way for young poets of the ''Awangarda krakowska'' group, among them Julian Przyboś, Jan Brzękowsk ...
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Jalu Kurek
Jalu Kurek (29 February 1904, in Kraków – 10 November 1983, in Rabka) was a Polish poet and prose writer, one of the figures of the so-called Kraków avant-garde. He was one of the contributors of the group's magazine '' Zwrotnica''. He was a laureate of the Young Poland Literary Award for the novel "Grypa szaleje w Naprawie" ("Influenza ravages Naprawa"). He graduated from the Bartłomiej Nowodworski High School in Kraków and obtained a Master's degree in philosophy from Jagiellonian University. He continued his studies at University of Naples. He was a lifelong friend of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Filippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti (; 22 December 1876 – 2 December 1944) was an Italian poet, editor, art theorist and founder of the Futurist movement. He was associated with the utopian and Symbolist artistic and literary community Abbaye de .... References 1904 births 1983 deaths Jagiellonian University alumni 20th-century Polish poets {{Poland-writer-stub ...
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List Of Avant-garde Magazines
This is a list of magazines which contain avant-garde material and content. One of their common characteristics was their unpredictable appearance. Notable avant-garde magazines include: 0–9 *''3:AM Magazine'' (2000–), Paris *''291 (magazine), 291'' (1915–1916), New York City *''391 (magazine), 391'' (1917–1924), Barcelona A *''aCOMMENT'' (1940–1947), Melbourne *''Al Adab'' (1953–2012), Beirut *''Akasztott Ember'' (1922–1923), Vienna *''Algol (magazine), Algol'' (1947), Catalonia * ''Apollon (magazine), Apollon'' (1909–1917), St. Petersburg *''Der Ararat'' (1918–1921), Munich *''Avant-Garde (magazine), Avant-Garde'' (1968–1971), New York City B * ''Bauhaus (magazine), Bauhaus'' (1926–1931), Germany *''Black Music (magazine), Black Music'' (1973–1984), United Kingdom C *''Cantrills Filmnotes'' (1971–2000), Melbourne *''Cuadernos'' (1953–1965), Paris *''Ça Ira (review), Ça Ira'' (1920–1923), Antwerp D *''Dau al set (magazine), Dau al set'' ( ...
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Utopia
A utopia ( ) typically describes an imagined community or society that possesses highly desirable or near-perfect qualities for its members. It was coined by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book ''Utopia (book), Utopia'', which describes a fictional island society in the New World. Hypothetical utopias focus on, among other things, equality in categories such as economics, government and justice, with the method and structure of proposed implementation varying according to ideology. Lyman Tower Sargent argues that the nature of a utopia is inherently contradictory because societies are not homogeneous and have desires which conflict and therefore cannot simultaneously be satisfied. To quote: The opposite of a utopia is a dystopia. Utopian and dystopian fiction has become a popular literary category. Despite being common parlance for something imaginary, utopianism inspired and was inspired by some reality-based fields and concepts such as utopian architecture, architecture, Cyber-ut ...
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Literary Magazines Published In Poland
Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially novels, plays, and poems. It includes both print and digital writing. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to include oral literature, much of which has been transcribed.; see also Homer. Literature is a method of recording, preserving, and transmitting knowledge and entertainment. It can also have a social, psychological, spiritual, or political role. Literary criticism is one of the oldest academic disciplines, and is concerned with the literary merit or intellectual significance of specific texts. The study of books and other texts as artifacts or traditions is instead encompassed by textual criticism or the history of the book. "Literature", as an art form, is sometimes used synonymously with literary fiction, fiction written with the goal of artistic merit, but can also include works in various non-fiction genres, ...
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Magazines Disestablished In 1927
A magazine is a periodical literature, periodical publication, print or digital, produced on a regular schedule, that contains any of a variety of subject-oriented textual and visual content (media), content forms. Magazines are generally financed by advertising, newsagent's shop, purchase price, prepaid subscription business model, subscriptions, or by a combination of the three. They are categorised by their frequency of publication (i.e., as weeklies, monthlies, quarterlies, etc.), their target audiences (e.g., women's and trade magazines), their subjects of focus (e.g., popular science and religious), and their tones or approach (e.g., works of satire or humor). Appearance on the cover of print magazines has historically been understood to convey a place of honor or distinction to an individual or event. Term origin and definition Origin The etymology of the word "magazine" suggests derivation from the Arabic language, Arabic (), the broken plural of () meaning "depot, s ...
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Magazines Established In 1922
A magazine is a periodical publication, print or digital, produced on a regular schedule, that contains any of a variety of subject-oriented textual and visual content forms. Magazines are generally financed by advertising, purchase price, prepaid subscriptions, or by a combination of the three. They are categorised by their frequency of publication (i.e., as weeklies, monthlies, quarterlies, etc.), their target audiences (e.g., women's and trade magazines), their subjects of focus (e.g., popular science and religious), and their tones or approach (e.g., works of satire or humor). Appearance on the cover of print magazines has historically been understood to convey a place of honor or distinction to an individual or event. Term origin and definition Origin The etymology of the word "magazine" suggests derivation from the Arabic (), the broken plural of () meaning "depot, storehouse" (originally military storehouse); that comes to English via Middle French and Italian . ...
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Defunct Literary Magazines Published In Poland
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Avant-garde Magazines
In the arts and literature, the term ''avant-garde'' ( meaning or ) identifies an experimental genre or work of art, and the artist who created it, which usually is aesthetically innovative, whilst initially being ideologically unacceptable to the artistic The Establishment, establishment of the time. The military metaphor of an ''advance guard'' identifies the artists and writers whose innovations in style, form, and subject-matter challenge the artistic and Aesthetics, aesthetic validity of the established forms of art and the literary traditions of their time; thus, the artists who created the anti-novel and Surrealism were ahead of their times. As a stratum of the intelligentsia of a society, avant-garde artists promote progressive and radical politics and advocate for societal reform with and through works of art. In the essay "The Artist, the Scientist, and the Industrialist" (1825), Olinde Rodrigues, Benjamin Olinde Rodrigues's political usage of ''vanguard'' identified ...
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