… into the art discourses of the era. The volume examines key artistic debates on postmodernism, new painting, socialism, and the art market, situating them within the broader historical context of the decade's transformative cultural, political and social landscape. The book is available for purchase at the bookstore and webshop of the Museum of Fine Arts and the Hungarian National Gallery.
… 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 Katona, Ágnes Képiró, Mária Madár, …
One of the most important areas of activity of the Lectorate of Fine and Applied Arts, founded in 1963, was the coordination, judging, and authorisation of community-oriented public artworks for public spaces and public institutions, using the state budget allocated for this purpose. The Lectorate appointed the artist whose public artwork would be permanently installed. It was also responsible …