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Seeing the Whole Picture: Studies on the Work of György Konecsni
… of works from new perspectives, 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 …
Stratification of an Archive: Possible Approaches to the Oeuvre of Péter Korniss
The publication, which is edited by Balázs Zoltán Tóth, 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 …
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, …
Károly Tóth
… and Documentation and Head of Department of the KEMKI Archive and Documentation Center (ADK). His research interests include Hungarian and European fine art of the 19th and 20th centuries, Hungarian art history writing and art criticism, and the history of painting in the Great Hungarian Plain. He is a regular contributor to arts journals, has edited several volumes of studies and catalogues, and has worked on the methodology of academic publishing. He has many years of experience as teacher …
Eszter Békefi
… 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 documentation of the Hungarian National Gallery’s …