{{Short description|Danish arts magazine (1926–1928)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox magazine | image_file = | image_size = | image_caption = | editor = Poul Henningsen | editor_title = Editor | frequency = Quarterly | circulation = | category = Architecture magazine | company = | founder = | publisher = | founded = 1926 | firstdate = July 1926 | finaldate = 1928 | country = Denmark | based = Copenhagen | language = Multilingual | issn = | oclc = }} '''''Kritisk Revy''''' ({{langx|da|Critical Review}}) was a quarterly architecture magazine. It was briefly published between 1926 and 1928 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The magazine played a significant role in developing avant-garde culture in Scandinavia in the period between World War I and World War II.<ref name=bri>{{Cite book|author=Torben Jelsbak|pages=860–878|volume=36 |editor1=Benedikt Hjartarson|editor2=Andrea Kollnitz|editor3=Per Stounbjerg|editor4=Tania Ørum|chapter=From Bauhaus to Our House – ''Kritisk Revy'', Popular Culture, and the Roots of "Scandinavian Design"|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kf-GDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA860|year=2019 |publisher=Brill Rodopi|isbn=978-90-04-38829-1|issn=1387-3008|id={{issn|2214-0808}}|editor4-link=Tania Ørum|location=Leiden; Boston, MA |title=A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1925-1950}}</ref> It is also the early source for the Danish modern.<ref name="ker"/><ref name="mark"/>
==History and profile== ''Kritisk Revy'' was established in 1926.<ref name=bri/> The first issue appeared in July 1926.<ref name=peb/> The founders were architects and left-wing intellectuals.<ref name=bri/> The headquarters was in Copenhagen. The editor of the magazine was Poul Henningsen.<ref name="pof">{{cite book|author1=Per Olaf Fjeld|author2=Emily Randall Fjeld|title=Louis I. Kahn: The Nordic Latitudes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vMOlDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA19|year=2019|publisher=University of Arkansas Press|isbn=978-1-68226-112-5|page=19|location=Fayetteville, AR}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Poul Henningsen (1894-1967)|url=https://www.danishnet.com/design/poul-henningsen-1894-1967/|work=Danish.net|access-date=23 April 2020}}</ref> Although three issues were published in the first year, the frequency of ''Kritisk Revy'' was quarterly for the following years.<ref name=peb/>
''Kritisk Revy'' contained articles that led to various polemics.<ref name="peb">{{cite book|editor1=Peter Brooker|editor2=Andrew Thacker |title=The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines|isbn=978-0-19-965958-6|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bvsfioiQ8k8C&pg=PA630|year=2013|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=630|volume=III|location=Oxford|author=Bjarne S. Bendtsen |chapter=Copenhagen: From the Ivory Tower to Street Activism}}</ref> These articles were not only written in Danish but also in other languages.<ref name="ker"/> The focus of magazine was avant-garde architecture and design.<ref name=bri/><ref>{{cite journal|author=Torben Jelsbak |title=Arbejdshypotesen om en menneskehed: Tidsskriftet Kritisk Revy mellem avantgarde og populærkultur|journal=Danske Studier|year=2011 |issue=106|url=https://www.forskningsdatabasen.dk/en/catalog/2497022308|language=da}}</ref> However, the topics were not limited to these subjects in that the magazine covered various topics related to Danish life, including nature preservation, literature and religion.<ref name="mark">{{cite book|author=Mark Mussari|title=Danish Modern: Between Art and Design|year=2016 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HL2nCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT28|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=978-1-4742-2368-3|page=28|location=New York}}</ref> The magazine also embraced a wide range of modern topics, including advertising, shop window design, jazz music, variety theatre and film.<ref name="bri"/>
The contributors adopted the notion of art for society's sake.<ref name=bri/> The magazine laid the basis of early Scandinavian modernism.<ref name=bri/> Poul Henningsen developed a new approach towards modernism in the magazine which focused on functionalism, criticism and clarity.<ref>{{cite book|editor1=Astradur Eysteinsson|editor2=Vivian Liska|title=Modernism|year=2007 |publisher=John Benjamins Publishing Company|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9Rw6AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA855|isbn=978-90-272-9204-9|page=855|author=Steen Klitgård Povlsen|chapter=Danish Modernism|location=Amsterdam; Philadelphia, PA}}</ref> It frequently carried articles about the architecture and planning of Copenhagen and other Nordic cities.<ref name=pof/> Significant contributors of ''Kritisk Revy'' included Otto Gelsted, Edvard Heiberg and Hans Kirk who would be a member of the Danish Communist Party.<ref name=peb/>
The magazine did not share the political approach of ''Klingen'', a former Danish magazine, but affected from its approach towards European art.<ref name="ker">{{cite book|author=Kerry Greaves|title=The Danish Avant-Garde and World War II: The Helhesten Collective |page=135|location=New York, NY|publisher=Routledge|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ftSNDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT135|year=2019|isbn=978-0-429-88590-7}}</ref> This effect was observed in the large format of ''Kritisk Revy'' (35.2 x 21.6 cm).<ref name=ker/> In addition, the magazine also included frequent illustrations and graphic formats like ''Klingen''.<ref name=ker/>
The circulation of ''Kritisk Revy'' ranged between 1800 and 2000 copies.<ref name=peb/> The magazine ceased publication after the publication of the eleventh issue appeared in Christmas 1928 with an announcement that ''Kritisk Revy'' accomplished the goals.<ref name=peb/>
==See also== * List of avant-garde magazines * List of magazines in Denmark
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