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DESCRIPTION
- N° 1 (March 1925) - N° 15 (April 1928).
- Edited by Max Herman Maxy.
- Published in Bucharest.
- Bucharest office: F. Brunea, Ion Calugaru, Ilarie Voronca; Paris office: Benjamin Fondane, Janos Mattis-Teutsch.
- Irregular.

CONTRIBUTORS
Brunea-Fox, Ion Calugaru, Ilarie Voronca, B. Fondane, Janos Mattis-Teutsch and others.

SECONDARY LITERATURE
Irina Carabas
'Can Aesthetics Overcome Politics? The Romanian Avant-garde and its Political Subtexts', lecture for 'New Histories of Politics' a conference at Central European University, Budapest (18-20 May 2007).
Krisztina Passuth
'The Landscape Visions of János Mattis Teutsch', in The Hungarian Quarterly 42, No. 163 (Autumn 2001). Review article.
Krisztina Passuth
'Die rumänische Avantgarde. Tristan Tzara, Marcel Iancu : Ion Vinea und Contimporanul, M.H. Maxy und Integral, Victor Brauner und 75HP, Constantin Brâncusi', in Krisztina Passuth, Treffpunkte der Avantgarden Ostmitteleuropa 1907-1930 / [aus dem Ungarischen, Anikó Harmath] (Balassi Kiadó etc. : Budapest etc. 2003) 218-244.

Max Herman Maxy
Max Herman Maxy (1895-1971), studied painting in Bucharest under Ressu and Iser, then in Berlin under Segal. In Berlin he exhibited with the Novembergruppe. On his return to Romania he became one of the leading members of the Avant Garde, introducing Cubism and organizing with Janco, Brauner and Michailescu the exhibitions of the Contimporanul group in 1924 and in the 1930s. At the same time Maxy was editor of Integral and the organizer of the Group of New Art. He co-founded and taught at the Academy of Modern Decorative Arts in Bucharest 1924-1928. Maxy's house in Bucharest was famous for literary readings, lectures and socio-political debates.
TEXT CREDITS
Label 190 of Breaking the Rules, exhbition by the British Library. Courtesy British Library, Stephen Bury (2008)