‘criticism’
Exhibitions and Criticism. Artistic discourses in the 1980s
… exciting and open debates as the 1980s. The anthology Kiállítások és kritikák [Exhibitions and Criticism], edited by Júliusz Huth and Kristóf Nagy and published by the Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI), offers a comprehensive exploration of this era. Featuring over fifty essays, reflections and reviews originally published during the 1980s, alongside a new, comprehensive study on the art criticism of the decade, the volume delves into the art discourses of the …
Károly Tóth
… and European fine art of the 19th and 20th centuries, Hungarian art history writing and art criticism, and the history of painting in the Great Hungarian Plain. He is a regular contributor to arts journals, has edited several volumes of studies and catalogues, and has worked on the methodology of academic publishing. He has many years of experience as teacher in higher education, as an editor and as a curator in Hungary and abroad. List of publications
Years of transition: the 1980s in Hungary and Eastern Europe
… in the 1980s , interviews with key figures from the decade, and an extensive review of 1980s art criticism. This work culminated in an anthology analysing the debates that shaped the Hungarian art scene during the period. Published in Hungarian, the volume is titled Exhibitions and Criticism: Discourses on Visual Art in the 1980s. As part of the research project, we are organizing an international conference for 2026 on the entanglement of postmodern art and the capitalist transition in …
Educational events
… tend to with their own state of mind” Session 3: 8 June 2022: Ágnes Eperjesi: Pathos and/or Criticism? The Political and Artistic Instrumentalisation of the Female Body
Júliusz Huth
… 2017, he was awarded the Fülep Lajos Prize, and in 2020, he received the Horváth Art Foundation’s Criticism Award. He is a lecturer at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts and a board member of the Hungarian section of AICA. As a researcher at the Research Department of KEMKI, he contributes to studies on the art of the 1980s. As part of this, he organized the Flowers of Decay conference in 2022 and edited the volume Exhibitions and Criticism: Discourses on Visual Art in the 1980s in …