Lokális találmányok, transznacionális alkotások
Local Inventions, Transnational Artworks

Visual poetry, pictopoetry, photomontage

Summary/Abstract: Rather than comparing the different inventions of East-Central European avant-gardes with Western trends, one should turn his attention to the neighbouring literatures. Transnational dialogues are evident during the 1920s between the Czech, Hungarian, Romanian and Polish avant-gardes. Blendings of visual and textual elements in the early 1920s offer important case studies of circulating avant-garde ideas. The author argues that the timing of such ‘inventions’ in these cultures cannot be explained without reference to a cultural network that worked independently from the generally acknowledged influence-relationships along the Western-Eastern European axis. Visual techniques of the historical avant-gardes from East-Central Europe can thus provide a more transparent analysis of the transfers within this space.

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