On Propagarde: The Late Period of the Romanian Artist M. H. Maxy

Next to Tristan Tzara, Marcel Janco, and Victor Brauner, Max Herman, known as Maxy (b. Braila, 1895, and d. Bucharest, 1971) was a (if not the) key figure of the Romanian avant-garde. His connections to communist ideas, to socialist realist practices and to proauthoritarian discourse were a long, paradigm-like process of turning avant-garde experience into advanced, progressive propaganda or “propagarde.”