Punct (magazine)

Punct (Romanian for "Point") was a Romanian weekly art magazine, published from 1924 to 1925. Founded and directed by Scarlat Callimachi it was edited by Victor Brauner and Stephan Roll. Although the periodical was subtitled “'A Review of Constructivist Art” it was dedicated not only to constructivism (art), but also covered other forms of abstract art having also strong links to Dadaism, due to contributions by Tristan Tzara. Punct was the third important avant-garde magazine published in Romania, following Contimporanul and the single issue of 75HP.

It was illustrated withlinocuts by Romanian artists among which Marcel Janco, Miliţa Petraşcu, Victor Brauner, János Mattis-Teutsch, M. H. Maxy as well as by foreign abstract artists such as Victor Servranckx or Kurt Schwitters and others. Inspired by Viking Eggeling's films, Janco composed a formal alphabet for 'Punct' that resembled the Eggeling's abstract signs on film. The magazine published literary work by Romanian writers (Ion Vinea, Stephan Roll, Ilarie Voronca and others), poems by French language poets ( Philippe Soupault, Louis Emié, Georges Linze) articles on art by Dutch and German painters (Theo van Doesburg Kurt Schwitters, Herwarth Walden)

References

* PUNCT - Revista de arta constructivista internationala [http://www.antiqbook.nl/boox/vlo/11232.shtml]
* PUNCT - Revista de arta constructivista internationala [http://www.arslibri.com/cat130w27.htm]

[Category:Romanian literary magazines