Edit DeAk

Edit DeAk (; and the non-profit bookstore and artist book distributor Printed Matter, Inc.

Early life and education DeAk was born Edit Deák in Budapest, Hungary, to Elvira (née Csutkai) and Béla Deák. However, DeAk and her cohorts eventually dreamed of starting their own magazine, and proposed ideas of printing a newspaper insert in Art in America. DeAk, Robinson, and Cohn later enrolled in the Whitney Independent Study Program, where the idea to publish a magazine resurfaced. Thus, the art magazine Art-Rite was founded in 1973.

In its conception, DeAk aimed for Art-Rite to have "a whole new tone and attitude," by addressing issues with humor and promoting unconventional forms of art, such as street art and performance art. Furthermore, DeAk and her colleagues created a very symbiotic relationship between Art-Rite and the artistic community, as the magazines were freely given away, "in recognition of the community which nurtures it.”

Personal life At the age of 18, DeAk married an artist named Péter Grósz (born in 1947 in Hungary), who later was known as Peter Grass. They eventually divorced.

Works and publications – Art Random, no. 15

– Exhibition from February 28, 1984 to April 1, 1984