Representations of the Holocaust in the Cold War Eastern Bloc: the Early Decades – conference, Berlin, Freie Universität, June 5–6, 2023
Representations of the Holocaust in the Cold War Eastern Bloc: the Early Decades – conference, Berlin, Freie Universität, June 5–6, 2023
Art of the Holocaust until 1989: Beyond an East/West Divide – conference, Budapest, CEU/KEMKI, June 8–10, 2022
… conducted by KEMKI ADK. It contains extended and edited texts from the presentations given at the conference entitled Stratification of an Archive: Possible Approaches to the Oeuvre of Péter Korniss. The diversely themed essays in the volume provide new interpretations of attitudes that prevailed in Hungarian documentary photography and photojournalism in the post-WWII period. Illustrated with images from the Péter Korniss Archive (held in the collection of the KEMKI ADK) as …
… why we deemed it important to celebrate the 150th anniversary of his birth in December 2023 with a conference on the multifaceted and indispensable role he played in Hungarian art history, museology, and especially in the history of the Museum of Fine Arts. We have now compiled the edited lectures of this conference into one volume, which we are pleased to share with the modern reader in honor of our distinguished predecessor, Elek Petrovics.’ (excerpt from the foreword by László Baán, …