''Punct'' (
Romanian
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for "Point") was a
Romania
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n art and literary magazine published from 1924 to 1925.
History and profile
Founded and directed by
Scarlat Callimachi
Scarlat Callimachi or Calimachi (; nicknamed ''Prințul Roșu'', "the Red
Prince"; September 20, 1896 – June 2, 1975) was a Romanian journalist, essayist, futurist poet, trade unionist, and communist activist, a member of the Callimachi f ...
, it ''Punct'' edited by painter
Victor Brauner
Victor Brauner (, also spelled Viktor Brauner; 15 June 1903 – 12 March 1966) was a Romanian painter and sculptor of the surrealism (art), surrealist movement.
Early life
He was born in Piatra Neamț, Romania, the son of a Jewish timber manufac ...
and writer
Stephan Roll
Stephan Roll (pen name of Gheorghe Dinu, also credited as Stéphane, Stefan or Ștefan Roll; June 5, 1904 – May 14, 1974) was a Romanian poet, editor, film critic, and communist militant. An autodidact, he played host to the Romanian avant-garde ...
.
Scarlat Callimachi
Scarlat Callimachi or Calimachi (; nicknamed ''Prințul Roșu'', "the Red
Prince"; September 20, 1896 – June 2, 1975) was a Romanian journalist, essayist, futurist poet, trade unionist, and communist activist, a member of the Callimachi f ...
was the
editor-in-chief
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of the magazine, which was published on a monthly basis.
The headquarters of the magazine was in
Bucharest
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.
The subtitle of ''Punct'' was changed three times during its existence: A Review of Constructivist Literature and Arts, A Review of International Arts and finally, A Review of Constructivist Art.
[ Although the periodical was subtitled "A Review of ]Constructivist Art
Constructivism is an early twentieth-century art movement founded in 1915 by Vladimir Tatlin and Alexander Rodchenko. Abstract and austere, constructivist art aimed to reflect modern industrial society and urban space. The movement rejected dec ...
", it was dedicated not only to constructivism, but also covered other forms of abstract art
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and had strong links to Dadaism
Dada () or Dadaism was an anti-establishment art movement that developed in 1915 in the context of the Great War and the earlier anti-art movement. Early centers for dadaism included Zürich and Berlin. Within a few years, the movement had s ...
, publishing pieces by Tristan Tzara
Tristan Tzara (; ; ; born Samuel or Samy Rosenstock, also known as S. Samyro; – 25 December 1963) was a Romanian and French avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist. Also active as a journalist, playwright, literary and art critic, c ...
. ''Punct'' was among the leading avant-garde magazines published in Romania, a group which also comprises ''Contimporanul
''Contimporanul'' (antiquated spelling of the Romanian word for "the Contemporary", singular masculine form) was a Romanian (initially a weekly and later a monthly) avant-garde literary and art magazine, published in Bucharest between June 1922 ...
'' and the single issue of ''75 HP''.
The issues of ''Punct'' were illustrated with linocut
Linocut, also known as lino print, lino printing or linoleum art, is a printmaking technique, a variant of relief printing in which a sheet of linoleum (sometimes mounted on a wooden block) is used for a relief printing, relief surface. A design i ...
s by Romanian artists, among them Brauner, Marcel Janco
Marcel Janco (, ; common rendition of the Romanian language, Romanian name Marcel Hermann Iancu ; 24 May 1895 – 21 April 1984) was a Romanian and Israeli visual artist, architect and art theorist. He was the co-inventor of Dadaism and a leading ...
, Miliţa Petraşcu, János Mattis-Teutsch
János Mattis-Teutsch, also spelled Máttis-Teutsch and Mátis-Teutsch (; 13 August 1884 – 17 March 1960) was a Romanian painter, sculptor, graphic artist, art critic, and poet. Best known for his ''Seelenblumen'' ("Soulflowers") cycle of ...
, M. H. Maxy
Max Hermann Maxy (also known as M. H. Maxy, born Max Herman; October 26, 1895 – July 19, 1971) was a Romanian painter, art professor, scenographer, and professor of German-Jewish descent.
Early life and education
Maxy was born in Brăila ...
, as well as by foreign abstractionists such as Victor Servranckx or Kurt Schwitters
Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters (20 June 1887 – 8 January 1948) was a German artist. He was born in Hanover, Germany, but lived in exile from 1937.
Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including Dadaism, Constructivism (a ...
. Inspired by Viking Eggeling
Viking Eggeling (21 October 1880 – 19 May 1925) was a Swedish avant-garde artist and filmmaker connected to dadaism, Constructivism, and abstract art and was one of the pioneers in absolute film and visual music. His 1924 film '' Diagonal-S ...
's film design, Janco also composed a formal alphabet for ''Punct''. The magazine published literary work by Romanian writers (Roll, Ion Vinea
Ion Vinea (born Ioan Eugen Iovanaki, sometimes Iovanache; April 17, 1895 – July 6, 1964) was a Romanian poet, novelist, journalist, literary theorist, and political figure. He became active on the Modernist literature, modernist scene during hi ...
, Ilarie Voronca
Ilarie Voronca (pen name of Eduard Isidor Marcus; 31 December 1903, Brăila – 8 April 1946, Paris) was a Romanian avant-garde poet and essayist.
Life and career
Voronca was of History of the Jews in Romania, Jewish ethnicity. In his early yea ...
and others), poems by French-language
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poets (Philippe Soupault
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, Louis Emié
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* ...
, Georges Linze Georges may refer to:
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) and articles on art by Dutch
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and German
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painters (Theo van Doesburg
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Theo van Do ...
, Kurt Schwitters
Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters (20 June 1887 – 8 January 1948) was a German artist. He was born in Hanover, Germany, but lived in exile from 1937.
Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including Dadaism, Constructivism (a ...
, Herwarth Walden
Herwarth Walden (actual name Georg Lewin; 16 September 1879 – 31 October 1941) was a German expressionist artist and art expert in many disciplines. He is broadly acknowledged as one of the most important discoverers and promoters of German av ...
).
''Punct'' ceased publication in 1925 when it was merged with ''Contimporanul''.[
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