‘Lectorate of Fine and Applied Arts’
Archives of the Lectorate of Fine and Applied Arts
The Lectorate of Fine and Applied Arts, established in 1963 under the supervision of the Ministry of Education, was one of the most important executive institutions of cultural policy before the regime change. Essentially functioning as a bureau of art censorship, the Lectorate had a definitive role in regulating the Hungarian art scene until 1989. From 1963 to 1990, the Lectorate had authority in …
From the Archives of the Lectorate of Fine and Applied Arts: Minutes of Exhibition Authorisation Meetings
The archival material of the Lectorate of Fine and Applied Arts—which comprises part of the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts–Central European Research Institute for Art History (ADK)—contains the minutes of meetings that were held from the 1960s to the 1980s for the purpose of evaluating exhibition proposals awaiting official authorisation. From 1963 onwards, the Lectorate had a primarily censorial role in the system of …
Cold War Modernisms
… Cold War Modernisms is moving along new research directions, based primarily on the records of the Lectorate of Fine and Applied Arts in KEMKI ADK. The deeper processing of the Design Center, namely the Industrial Design Information Center, added to the collection in 2023, has begun, while sub themes such as the relation between abstraction and public space, textile art and public space are also coming into focus.
Eszter Szőnyeg-Szegvári
Museologist (Archive of the Lectorate) She earned an MA in Design Theory from the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME) in 2015. In the same year, she was awarded the Ernő Kállai Art Critic Scholarship, in the framework of which she focused on the exhibition activities and international relations of the Council of Applied Arts (1955-1975). She began to work in the Data Archives of the Museum of Fine Arts – …
ALBERT Ádám: My Appropriations (Dezső Korniss), 2022
… located in front of the Rác Thermal Baths, in the Tabán area of the First District. The black and white photographs showing Dezső Korniss’s (1908–1984) work (KEMKI ADK Inv. No.: 25001/2014/Korniss Dezső/1-3) belong to the public sculpture register, which comprises part of the 500 metres of documents that originally belonged to the Lectorate of Fine and Applied Arts, but have, since 2014, been kept at ADK’s predecessor, the Data Archives of the Hungarian National Gallery. The mosaic of …