{"id":22262,"date":"2016-06-08T12:35:35","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T16:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=22262"},"modified":"2016-06-08T17:42:32","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T21:42:32","slug":"momas-hidden-electro-library-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2016\/06\/momas-hidden-electro-library-show.html","title":{"rendered":"MoMA’s Hidden ‘Electro-Library’ Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s only a couple of vitrines, and they seem like overflow storage — as though they’ve been placed out of the way in the downstairs mezzanine of the Museum of Modern Art’s education building on 54th Street. But the slide show<\/a> for THE ELECTRO-LIBRARY: European Avant-Garde Magazines from the 1920s<\/a> is magnificent. In visual richness, and with the added wealth of historical detail<\/a>, the online presence of the show dwarfs the actual exhibit (closing Monday). I haven’t asked the bibliographer of the MoMA Library, David Senior<\/a>, who organized the project, whether he regards it as a prelude to the top-billed Tristan Tzara magnum opus, DadaGlobe Reconstructed<\/a> (opening Sunday). But that’s how I think of it. <\/p>\n

Click for slideshow.<\/a><\/center>
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THE ELECTRO-LIBRARY: European Avant-Garde Magazines from the 1920s<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

There are some advantages to seeing the actual exhibit, though. For instance, you can read the 1924 manifesto of PICTOPO\u00c9SIE — described in French as an invention of the painter Victor Brauner and the poet Ilarie Voronca — which is on the back page of the Romanian magazine 75HP<\/strong>. That’s in one of the vitrines but not in the slide show. <\/p>\n

\"'75HP'<\/a>

The magazine 75HP<\/strong> with front and back pages as shown in the exhibit.<\/p><\/div>\n

Part of the back page is printed upside down, purposely of course, so you have to be a bit of an eyeball contortionist to read it. Or you can take a photo of it and rotate it to see what it says. Here tiz<\/a>, cropped and enlarged. (They apparently didn’t mind typos.)<\/p>\n

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