Periodicals

The periodicals listed in these four sections represent a selection from the collection. Included are journals published between the First and Second World Wars that were dedicated to social change and international exchange. Designed mostly by avant-garde artists, they were visual embodiments of social critique and the potential for positive progress in the twentieth century. They functioned as vehicles for conversations about theory and practice among forward-thinking artists, architects, and writers, many of whom are represented elsewhere in the collection.

Not included (although also represented in the collection) are journals published before 1914 (ex. Vesy) and after 1945 (ex. The Black Panther), and serial publications in the following categories: high-circulation, popular illustrated journals and newspapers to which avant-garde artists contributed (ex. Emporium, Fortune, Pravda, Vanity Fair); serialized books (ex. Bauhausbücher, Biblioteca a.r., Dzhim Dollar, Filmkunst, Istoriia VKP); yearly almanacs (ex. Foto al’manakh); local industry and trade journals (ex. Die Baugilde, Bausteine, Buch und Werbekunst, Ons Technisch Maandblad; De Reclame); certain film and theater listings (ex. Teatp i muzyka); bibliographical indices (ex. Kniga o knigakh, Plakat i khudozhestvennaia reproduktsiia); and commemorative Olympics series.

Title, place, overall years of publication, and editor/s are provided, followed by the year/s of issues in the collection. Where full scans of journals in other collections are available online, they are hyperlinked to the journal’s title. If our own issues are available online, these are also hyperlinked to the word “holdings.” For more specific information regarding our holdings, please contact us.

Journals appear under place of publication regardless of language (ex. Veshch appears under Germany; Sztuka Współczesna under France). Where place of publication varies, they appear in the editors’ place of origin (ex. Broom appears under United States; Ma under Hungary; Albatros under Poland).

Bibliographic information is drawn primarily from the journals themselves. We have also relied on authoritative library catalogues and scholarly sources such as The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines, vol. I: Britain and Ireland 1880–1955 (2009); vol. II: North America 1894–1960 (2012); and vol. III: Europe 1880–1940 (2013). Translated titles and uncertain information appears in [square brackets]. Research is ongoing and we welcome corrections to the information presented here.