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Seeing the Whole Picture: Studies on the Work of György Konecsni
… the authors of this new volume published by the Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI), draw on the findings of new Hungarian and international research with respect to the period in order to present aspects of—and groups of works from—his oeuvre that are either already well known, or have been sidestepped or deliberately kept invisible. The scope of explored works ranges from tourism-oriented, commercial and political posters to public art, from monumental-scale …
Stratification of an Archive: Possible Approaches to the Oeuvre of Péter Korniss
The publication is related to research on the history of photography 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 …
Petrovics 150 : Study Volume in Honor of Elek Petrovics
We can safely say that if it wasn’t for Elek Petrovics' work, Hungarian art history would not be what it is today. That is 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 …
Dávid Fehér
Director Dávid Fehér is Director of the Central European Research Institute for Art History of the Museum of Fine Arts, curator of 20 th century and contemporary art at the Museum of Fine Arts, and assistant professor at the Institute of Art History, Eötvös Loránd University. He defended his PhD dissertation on the art of László Lakner at Eötvös Loránd University in 2018. His field of research is Central and Eastern European art history after 1960, with a special focus on the …
Károly Tóth
… for Archives and Documentation, Head of Department He graduated from the departments of Art History and History at ELTE in 2007 as a member of the Eötvös Collegium. He defended his PhD dissertation at the ELTE Doctoral School of Art History in 2013, and it was published as a book in 2015. Since 2021 he has been Deputy Director for Archives and Documentation and Head of Department of the KEMKI Archive and Documentation Center (ADK). His research interests include Hungarian and European …