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The Correspondence of József Rippl-Rónai
Primary source publications The publication of the correspondence of József Rippl-Rónai (1861-1927) is a long-standing debt of Hungarian art history. This publication of great academic importance, long awaited by those interested in modern Hungarian art, is prepared by KEMKI ADK in collaboration with renowned Rippl-Rónai experts. Our aim is to compile an exhaustive collection and publish every letter ever …
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 …
What Will Be Already Exists: Temporalities of Cold War Archives in East-Central Europe and Beyond
Edited Volume of Selected Papers from the Artpool40 Conference In February 2020, we organized an international conference entitled Artpool40 - Active Archives and Art Networks on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the foundation of Artpool and its concurrent relocation to the Central European Research Institute of Art History of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. The study volume …
Exhibitions and Criticism. Artistic discourses in the 1980s
Few periods in the Hungarian art field have seen such intense, exciting and open debates as the 1980s. The anthology Kiállítások és kritikák [Exhibitions and Criticism], edited by Júliusz Huth and Kristóf Nagy and published by the Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI), offers a comprehensive exploration of this era. Featuring over fifty essays, reflections and …
Seeing the Whole Picture: Studies on the Work of György Konecsni
György Konecsni’s art is characterized by a diversity of styles and forms. He is known by many as a poster artist and a pioneer of modern Hungarian applied graphics, and by others as the co-creator of one of the most cited works of historicist socialist realism, Before the Storm (1951). Beyond exploring Konecsni’s body of works from new perspectives, the authors of this new volume …