'The only English periodical of the avant-garde': Sidney Hunt and the journal 'Ray'

• Autores: Iria Candela
• Localización: Burlington magazine, ISSN 0007-6287, Vol. 152, Nº 1285, 2010, págs. 239-244
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The writer discusses the remarkable achievement of artist Sidney Hunt as the singular creator of Ray, “the only English periodical of the avant-garde,” within the cultural scene of Britain in the 1920s. Huntwas a British draftsman, painter, poet, and editor who published Ray in London between 1926 and 1927. This publication was indeed the only English equivalent of influential art journals from the 1920s, such as Merz, De Stijl, and Mécano, and the first to introduce English readers to some of the leading figures of the period's European avant-garde, such as Kurt Schwitters, El Lissitzky, and Theo van Doesburg. Among other things, a study of Ray's content and design goes some way to challenging the false preconception that England's “insularity” during the 1920s was the exception to the creative fervor of art journals widely spread all over Europe.