Signal, International Review of Signalist Research

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Signal
Editor Miroljub Todorović
Publisher Signalism, international avant-garde movement
FounderMiroljub Todorović
First issueSeptember 1, 1970 (1970-09-01)
Final issue
Number
2004
30
CountryYugoslavia / Serbia
Based inBelgrade
Languagemultilingual (Serbian, English, Hungarian etc)

Magazine Signal with the subtitle "International Review of Signalist Research" was the periodical of Signalism, international avant-garde creative movement. The magazine was founded in 1970 in Belgrade. [1] Founder and editor-in-chief was Miroljub Todorović.

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The movement was significantly boosted by the magazine, publishing multilingual works of neo avant-garde poets, fiction writers, essayists and visual artists from Europe, North and South America, Japan and Australia.

Nine issues of Signal appeared between 1970 and 1973, [2] presenting a number of domestic and international artists, as well as printing bibliographical data about the avant-garde publications all around the world. From 1973 until 1995 magazine could not be published, mainly for financial reasons.

From 1995 to 2004 another 21 issues of Signal appeared. [3] The new release of Signal revitalized the Signalist movement and brought numerous young artists into the movement in 21st century.

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References

  1. Šram Godehard, „Signal – internacionalna revija za signalistička istraživanja“, in: Signalizam u svetu, Belgrade, 1984, pp. 14-15 (originally published in 1972)
  2. No. 1, 2-3, 4-5, 6-7 and 8-9.
  3. No. 10, 11-12, 13-14, 15-16-17, 18, 19-20, 21, 22-23-24, 25-26-27 and 28-29-30.
  4. "Manifest of Signalism" (Japanese, English, Serbian), Signalism @ Project Rastko, e-library

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