Caricature, popular illustration and magazine cultures 25 October 2023 Clockwise, from top left: Blok (Warsaw, 1924); Pasmo (Brno, 1925); Merz (Hannover, 1924); Broom (Berlin, 1923); Veshch/Gegenstand/Objet (Berlin, 1922); Integral (Bucharest, 1925); Disk (Prague, 1923); Blok (Warsaw, 1924); ABC: Beiträge zum Bauen (Basel, 1926); Broom (Berlin, 1923); MA (Vienna, 1924); 75HP (Bucharest, 1924). The Museum of Modern Art Library A collage of various types of posters Description automatically generated The avant-garde and modernist magazines A newspaper with a black and white text Description automatically generated Pásmo, 1924, no. 1. Inside back cover of Blok 6-7, Warsaw, 1924. ReD 1:2 (November 1927): The Russian issue. The avant-garde and modernist magazines A white and red poster Description automatically generated Disk 1 (1923) A red and white book with a person in a red and black design Description automatically generated A pink and black disk Description automatically generated Chapter%20IV%20-%20Trn/Chapter%20IV%20Illustrations/IMG_1835.jpg Chapter%20IV%20-%20Trn/Chapter%20IV%20Illustrations/IMG_1838.jpg Trn Vol. 1 No.1 (1924) cover and page 3 George Grosz Das Gesicht der herrschenden Klasse (Berlin: Malik, 1921) Chapter%20IV%20-%20Trn/Chapter%20IV%20Illustrations/3.jpg Trn 5:20, (1929) A picture containing text, book Description automatically generated Trn, 5:8 (April 1929) A picture containing text, indoor Description automatically generated Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung, 9:6 (1930). Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung, 13:40 (1934). Photomontage by John Heartfield. A picture containing text, wall, person, window Description automatically generated A newspaper with a person's face on it Description automatically generated with medium confidence John Heartfield (1891 – 1986) Zwangslieferantin von Menschenmaterial (Montagefotografie der Fotomontage für die AIZ, 1930, Nr. 10), https://heartfield.adk.de/node/3404 Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung (AIZ), 16 October 1932, cover by John Heartfield: Der Sinn des Hitlergrußes: Kleiner Mann bittet um große Gaben. Motto: Millionen stehen hinter mir!(The Meaning Behind the Hitler Salute: Little Man Asks for Big Donations. Motto: Millions Stand Behind Me!) John Heartfield, 1929 Adolf Hoffmeister, 1948 František Bidlo, 1932 A person holding a cigarette Description automatically generated Antonín Pelc Adolf Hoffmeister, Rome brings black culture to the Abyssinians, 1936 A cartoon of a person holding a black shirt Description automatically generated Adolf Hoffmeister, Silently does it, 1933 © Galerie výtvarného uměni v Havlíčkové Brode A drawing of a person sailing on a boat Description automatically generated František Bidlo: Vzpomínka na Prahu. Věnováno Georgu Groszovi, 1926 A black and white drawing of a city Description automatically generated A pink poster with black and white characters Description automatically generated A drawing of a person and a car Description automatically generated Antonín Pelc, Satirická kresba A group of people in black robes Description automatically generated Antonín Pelc, At the cemetery, 1930 adolph_superman_oz.jpg IMG_9362.jpg 54-55.jpg The International Caricature Exhibition 6 April – 6 June 1934 SVU Mánes, Prague John Heartfield, George Grosz, Adolf Hoffmeister, Antonín Pelc, František Bidlo, Erich Godal, Thomas Theodor Heine, Josef Čapek Adolf Hoffmeister: ‘Mánes streamlining the caricature exhibition in accordance with the ambassador’s wishes’, Simplicus, 1:14 (26 April 1934) © Czech National Literature Archives, Prague A magazine cover with a drawing of people Description automatically generated John Heartfield: On the Occasion of the Intervention of the Third Reich, 1934 © David King Collection, Tate Modern A wall with pictures of people Description automatically generated Axis Crimes - Don't Let Them Happen Here. Old Europe 1942. 1942 Hoffmeister and Peel (Pelc) Serio-Comic Map of Europe World War II A poster with a map of the country Description automatically generated A cartoon of two people Description automatically generated Adolf Hoffmeister -Europa, 1932 View of the exhibition War Caricatures by Hoffmeister and Peel at The Museum of Modern Art, 1943. The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York A black and white photo of a painting Description automatically generated Antonín Pelc, Lidice, 1943, now missing A black and white picture of a person with red ropes Description automatically generated Adolf Hoffmeister and Antonín Pelc at MoMA in 1943 Just “simple entertainment”? A page of a book with text and images Description automatically generated A person and person sitting on a bed Description automatically generated A picture containing text Description automatically generated A picture containing text Description automatically generated A black and white photo of a person and person dancing Description automatically generated with low confidence ‘…of all kinds of artwork, that which is most familiar to us is the illustrations in our popular magazines. Most people look at the pictures, even if they do not always take time to read the articles.’ Caroline A. Powell, ‘Methods of Magazine Illustration’, The American Woman’s Journal, 7:5 (February 1894), 189. A cover of a book Description automatically generated A group of people playing music Description automatically generated Just “simple entertainment”? A picture containing text, whiteboard, posing, various Description automatically generated Lisl Weil, “A-B-C der Frau”, Die Bühne 347 (1933), 10-11 And where are all the women artists? A page of a book with drawings Description automatically generated with low confidence A page of a book with drawings Description automatically generated with low confidence Die Bühne, Heft 453 (1937), 50. Further reading •Nicholas Sawicki, "The View From Prague: Moderní revue (1894-1925); Volné směry (1896-1949); Umělecký měsíčník (1911-14); Revoluční sborník Devětsil (1922); Život (1922); Disk (1923-5); Pásmo (1924-6); and ReD (1927-31)", in The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines, Volume III, Europe 1880-1940, eds. Brooker, Bru, Thacker, and Weikop, Oxford University Press, 2013, pp 1074-1098. •Meghan Forbes, ‘Advertisement as Collaboration in the Central European Avant-Garde Magazines’, post. Notes on art in a global context, https://post.moma.org/advertisement-as-collaboration-in-the-central-european-avant-garde-magazines- 2/ • •Anna Pravdová, ‘Parts 1 and 2: Anti-Fascist Caricatures by Adolf Hoffmeister and Antonín Pelc at MoMA in 1943’, post. Notes on art in a global context, https://post.moma.org/part-1-anti-fascist-caricatures-by-adolf-hoffmeister-and-antonin-pelc-at-moma -in-1943/ •