Reading Ray: Avant-Garde and Transnationalism in Interwar Britain

• Published in: Modernist cultures Vol. 16; no. 2; p. 216
• Main Authors: Somers, Matthias, Sjöberg, Sami
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 01.05.2021
• Subjects: Arts and crafts movement; Avant-garde; Handicrafts; Humanities; Innovations; Interwar period; Modernism; Periodicals; Transnationalism

The British modernist little magazine Ray: Art Miscellany (1926–1927) pioneered the combination of text and image in the vein of the Continental avant-gardes. Amid the surge of interest in periodicals within modernist studies, Ray has managed to escape broader attention. Its editor, Sidney Hunt, was...