‘monument’
Daguerreotypes in the Collection of KEMKI ADK
Daguerreotype Series on Istvány Ferenczy's Works for the Matthias Rex Monument The series of daguerreotypes of the works of the sculptor István Ferenczy, made by Adolf Gola and preserved in the collection of the SZM - KEMKI ADK, recorded the effort attempt to erect the firsta Hungarian public monument for a Central-European national leader. The images therefore document an important phase in the formation of Hungarian national identity in the nineteenth century …
From the Archive of the Lectorate for Fine and Applied Arts: Documents on Public Art
Makris Agamemnon, Liberation Monument (Nike), chrome steel sculpture, Pécs, Mecsek-side, 1975, photographer: Ernő Tillai
Archives of the Lectorate of Fine and Applied Arts
Makris Agamemnon, Liberation Monument (Nike), chrome steel sculpture, Pécs, Mecsek-side, 1975, photographer: Ernő Tillai
Seeing the Whole Picture: Studies on the Work of György Konecsni
… explored works ranges from tourism-oriented, commercial and political posters to public art, from monumental-scale historicist paintings to abstract expressionist works, from stamp designs to literary illustrations, from caricatures to sgraffito art, from inventive typographic solutions to experimental surface design techniques. (Excerpt from the foreword by David Fehér) Editors: Katalin Bakos, Eszter Szőnyeg-Szegvári Authors: Katalin Bakos, Sára Bárdi, Barbara Dudás, Anikó …
Cold War Modernisms
… paintings, stamp designs and illustrations, and also receiving commissions for fairground and monumental art projects. Based on the artist’s estate, which has been preserved and looked after by his heirs, beyond this well known image of the graphic idol, a much more nuanced picture emerges of the artist’s activities. György Konecsni’s experimentally spirited oeuvre, encompassing a wide variety of genres and techniques – and a new understanding of the artist himself, who struggled …