''Ray'' was a British
short-run little avant-garde art magazine, designed,
edited, and financed by the English artist and designer
Sidney Hunt
Sidney Hunt (1896–1940) was a British draughtsman, painter, poet and editor who published the avant-garde journal '' Ray'' between 1926 and 1927.
Life
Sidney James Hunt was born in 1896 and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. Duri ...
from its start in 1926 to its demise in 1927. The magazine was described as the English equivalent of other influential art journals from the 1920s such as ''Merz'', ''Mecano'' and ''
De Stijl''. The headquarters of Ray was in
London.
''Ray'' featured work of leading figures of the European avant-garde such as
Kurt Schwitters,
El Lissitzky,
Theo van Doesburg,
Naum Gabo, and
Hans Arp
Hans Peter Wilhelm Arp (16 September 1886 – 7 June 1966), better known as Jean Arp in English, was a German-French sculptor, painter, and poet. He was known as a Dadaist and an abstract artist.
Early life
Arp was born in Straßburg (now Stras ...
. Although only two issues were printed, the existence of ''Ray'' establishes a line of continuity between the
Vorticist movement of the 1910s and
Unit One's renaissance of British art in the 1930s. From this perspective, ''Ray'' should be considered the missing link between the 1914-15 publication of the
Vorticist journal ''
BLAST'' and the edition of the abstract and constructivist English magazines ''Axis'' (1935-1937) and ''Circle'' (1937).
References
Avant-garde magazines
Visual arts magazines published in the United Kingdom
Defunct magazines published in the United Kingdom
English-language magazines
Magazines published in London
Magazines established in 1926
Magazines disestablished in 1927
{{art-mag-stub