Wileńskie czasopisma wytworne w dwudziestoleciu międzywojennym. Rozpoznania wstępne

Abstract

This is a reconnaissance study. The article outlines an area of research on pre-war Vilnius magazines that may be considered “elegant” or “debonair” (in reference to the title of the monograph by Stanisław Lam entitled Książka wytworna. Rzecz o estetyce druku ([The Elegant Book. On the Aesthetics of Print] of 1926). Among many, usually ephemeral, literary and cultural magazines that were issued in Vilnius in the years 1920–1939, the author selected those, whose graphic layout and typography aspire to be elegant magazines. Most of them followed the principles of traditional design, yet some used innovative, avant-gar de ideas in the spirit of constructivism and functionalism (which contradicts the thesis that the Exhibition of Modern Art that took place in Vilnius in 1923 left no trace).