''Akasztott Ember'' (Hanged Man) was a

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avant-garde The avant-garde (; In 'advance guard' or ' vanguard', literally 'fore-guard') is a person or work that is experimental, radical, or unorthodox with respect to art, culture, or society.John Picchione, The New Avant-garde in Italy: Theoretical ...

art magazine published in

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Sándor Barta Sándor Barta (7 October 1897, Budapest – 3 June, 1938) was a Hungarian poet active in various avant-garde movements. After emigrating to the Soviet Union, he remained active amongst German-speaking cultural groups. He was an active agent in car ...

. Five issues appeared between November 1922 and February 1923. It was subtitled "The Organ of Universal Socialist Culture". Barta had indicated his dissatisfaction with the stance of '' MA'', another Hungarian émigré avant-garde arts magazine based in Vienna in July 1922. He indicated that owing to the need for a social revolution it was inappropriate to base an arts practice in anything other than literature. This set him on a track at odds with both ''MA'' and ''

Egység ''Egység'' was a communist Hungarian art magazine published in Vienna and Berlin between 1922 and 1924. The full title was ''Egység, Irodalom, Müvészet'' which means "Unity, Literature, Art". Éva Forgács, Tyrus Miller, (2013) "The Avant-G ...

'' another magazine established by

Béla Uitz Béla Uitz (8 March 1887, Mehála, Kingdom of Hungary (today part of Timișoara, Romania) – 26 January 1972, Budapest, Hungary) was a Hungarian painter and communist activist. In 1907 he studied at the Hungarian National School of Applied Art ...

and

Aladár Komját Aladár Komját (11 February 1891, Kassa – 3 January 1937, Paris) was a Hungarian poet and communist activist. Komját broke with Lajos Kassák and the circle of artists around '' MA'' in 1917 and participated in the founding of the Communist ...

, who likewise broke away from ''MA''. The title was taken from a poem of the same name published in the 15 July issue of ''MA'' which commemorated those who had been executed in the suppression by the

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following the fall of the Hungarian Soviet Republic. The first issue included a Manifesto in which Barta wrote, in capital letters: "TODAY WE AS PEOPLE FEEL HANGED, AND THOSE WHO DO NOT FEEL HANGED BELONG TO THOSE WHO HANG US AND KICK US."

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Ernő Kállai Ernő Kállai (9 November 1890, Săcălaz- 28 November 1954, Budapest) was a Hungarian art critic who was involved in the promotion of and theorisation around Constructivism. He encountered avant-garde art upon visiting the MA gallery of Lajos K ...

: “The Russian Exhibition in Berlin” (Originally published as “A berlini orosz kiállfíás”, ''Akasztott Ember'' Vol. 2 (February 15, 1923)]

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