‘history’
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 …
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 …
Eszter Békefi
Project Leader, Chief Museologist She graduated at the Department of Art History at ELTE BTK and started working for the Research Group for Restitution at the Hungarian National Gallery in 1995, and from 2007 she was a staff member in its Archive Department. Since 2021 she has been the chief museologist of the KEMKI Archive and Documentation Center (ADK) and manager of the Archive of 19th and 20th Century Art, principally for Our House corpus, a collection of the …