Abstract
The first major quarrel and the subsequent secession in the Hungarian avant-garde in 1917-1918 had a long lasting impact on radical modernity and even on the entire Hungarian leftist intellectual and cultural life in Hungary and beyond. This article provides a critical examination of this early and decisive controversy in the avant-garde journal MA (To-day), edited in Budapest, leading to its split into aesthetic and political sides since 1917-1918. It highlights some of the most important issues, such as its main actors, the debated subjects, the arenas in which this controversy took place, as well as the question of its audiences. Also it focuses on its protracted afterlife as well as on historical narratives and their omissions.
Highlights
The first major conflict in the Hungarian avant-garde and the subsequent secession in 1917–18 had a long-lasting impact on radical modernism and even on the entire intellectual and cultural life of the Hungarian Left
It reconstructs this crucial moment of rupture, examining its main actors, its audiences, the subjects that were debated, and the arenas in which the controversy took place
As I shall demonstrate, this was no short-lived moment of conflict: rather it experienced a protracted afterlife through selective historical narratives and their omissions
Summary
The first major conflict in the Hungarian avant-garde and the subsequent secession in 1917–18 had a long-lasting impact on radical modernism and even on the entire intellectual and cultural life of the Hungarian Left.
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