[LEGENDARY SLOVAK ART JOURNAL, LATER BANNED] Mladá tvorba: mesačník pre literatúru, umenie, život [Young creativity: a monthly magazine for literature, art, and life]. Significant run of 130 issues of 140 published.

Bratislava: Vydavatel'stvo časopisov Sväzu slovenských spisovatelov, 1957–1970. Small quartos (25 × 20.5 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 40–64 pp. per issue. Profusely illustrated from photographs, drawings, colorful typography and visual poetry. About very good; occasional wear to wrappers; some discoloration or soil. Item #55081

130 issues in 115 fascicles of the legendary Slovak arts and literature journal of the post-war period, published from 1956 until 1970, documenting the journal's broad cultural horizon, progressive outlook on art and literature, and its profound impact in communist Slovakia. After fifteen years of navigating the complexities of communist censorship, the journal was ultimately banned after the onset of the "Normalization" period following the repression of the Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia. Focusing equally on art and literature, "Mladá tvorba" was renowned as a site of free expression and experimentation, especially for art and writing linked to the Concretist movement. It maintained especially strong links to the literary group "Lonely runners" (including writers such as Ivan Laučík, Peter Repka, Ivan Štrpka and others). Other published writers included Jan Štrasser, Peter Repka, Tomáš Janovic, Vladimír Mináč, and many others. The wrappers were designed by various artists, including Ernest Špitz, Gita Ferková, Michal Studený, Miroslav Cipár, and Miloš Urbásek.

Among the many other Slovak artists whose work is featured throughout the issues are: Ján Lebiš, Jozef Jankovič, the photographer Karol Kállay, sculptor Ludwik Korkoš, Miroslav Marček, Ján Mráz, D. Javorová, Anton Cimmermann, Jaroslav Kočíš, Ladislav Borodáč, Michal Uher, Miloš Urbásek, Milan Mravec, Miroslav Šutej, and many others. Foreign artists include Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Paul Klee, Kandinsky, Yves Klein, Jean Tinguely, Niki de St. Phalle, Paul van Hoyedonck, Gianni Bertini, Vasarely, Martial Raysse, Salvador Dali, Ina Colliander, Juraj Dobrovič, Otto Piene, and many others. Articles on Slovak surrealism, and texts by or about Truman Capote, Federico García Lorca, Ezra Pound, Heidegger, Aldous Huxley, Robert Musil, Apollinaire, T. S. Eliot, Hermann Hesse, Edward Albee, Isaak Babel, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Italo Calvino, Gregory Corso, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Rimbaud, John Updike, John O'Reilly, Gennadii Aigi, André Maurois, and many others.

The issues included are:

Vol. II, no. 2 (1957); vol. III, nos. 3, 5, 6–7, 8–9, 10, 11, 12 (1958); vol. IV, nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6–7, 12 (1959); vol. V, nos. 1, 3, 4, 6–7, 8–9, 10, 12 (1960); vol. VI, nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6–7, 8–9, 10, 11, 12 (1961); vol. VII, nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6–7, 8–9, 10, 11; vol. VIII, nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6–7, 8–9, 10, 11, 12 (1963); vol. IX, nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6–7, 8–9, 10, 11, 12 (1964); vol. X, nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6–7, 8, 9, 10, 11 (1965); vol. XI, nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (1966); vol. XII, nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (1967); vol. XIII, nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (1968); vol. XIV, nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (1969); vol. XV, nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8 (1970).

As of April 2026, KVK, OCLC show five holdings in North America, most of them consisting of scattered issues.

Price: €4,000.00

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