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Organising the Spectacle: Regional Contexts of the Historical Avant-garde
… the period in the context late 19 th – early 20 th century social movements and mass culture. It goes beyond the aesthetic interpretations of art and approaches it through its social embeddedness and international framework, in line with methods and inquiries from the interdisciplinary crossovers of social history and art theory, such as urbanism, sociology of art, intellectual history, and cultural transfer. The central concept of the research program is the metropolis, …
Art During the Cold War
… take an interdisciplinary approach, at the intersection of art history, exhibition history, and cultural diplomacy (soft power), in order to illuminate the artistic nodes of bilateral and regional international relations and to examine the memory of the Holocaust in fine arts in the context of Cold War confrontation and East–West rivalry. The two ongoing research projects are The Modern Idol: Henry Moore in the Eastern Bloc and Holocaust and the Arts. The former examines, in the …
"Active - Archive - Research" Workshop
… different professional backgrounds) will start their work under the leadership of Andrea Pócsik, cultural researcher. The idea of the "laboratory" is based on the unique feature of Artpool that participants can develop their own research questions in discussion with the founders, artist György Galántai and Júlia Klaniczay, and find the right paths to understand the archive and explore the collection. They will also learn about the complementary but different methods of art history and …
Artpool40 – Active Archives and Art Networks
… Research Institute of Art History of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. It aims to map the cultural-political-historical contexts of Artpool's activity by bringing together scholars and practitioners interested in transnational research on artist archives, progressive curatorial and museological practices, and the historiography of Cold War art scenes and networks. The conference takes Artpool’s 1979 concept of an “ Active Archive ” as a starting point to explore its contemporary …
Networking the Peripheries / World Art Post: International Artist Stamp Exhibition
… design, “which were assembled into meaningful series, regardless of geographical, political, and cultural boundaries,” write Galántai and Júlia Klaniczay in the introduction to the catalog. Artpool organized an exhibition of the stamp designs received from 550 artists from 35 countries at the Fészek Club in April 1982, which made visible the transcontinental, contingent, and with blind-spots, but nevertheless utopian, network of gift culture that the project had set in motion. Many …