‘70s’

… "Artists are like seismographs foreseeing future tectonic movements. In the same decade, the 1970s, unusual institutions were established both in Budapest and Warsaw: Artpool by György Galántai and Júlia Klaniczay, and Andrzej Partum’s Poetry Bureau. It was clear to everyone that something extraordinary was happening. Even if only because any disobedience invited the disapproval of the authorities, and bureaus and archives were the domain of the state. Over time, the artistic …

… read about Syrian women's periodicals from the 1920s, the “unofficial” art magazines of the 1970s, and – in an essay authored by our colleague Magdolna Gucsa – about a German-language anti-Nazi newspaper, with Emil Szittya as its editor.   This special issue is available at the following link:  https://openjournals.ugent.be/jeps/issue/25780/info /  

… Dávid Fehér: Hungarian Artists Encountering the International Art Market in the 1960s–1970s and after the Fall of the Iron Curtain: How Did the Market Structure Artistic Career Paths? Luise Mahler: In War and Peace: Kahnweiler’s Picture Trade, ca. 1919–1949 Dorotea Petrucci: To Show Beauty of Art in Trade’: Commercialising Italy’s Decorative and Industrial Arts in the Inter-War Years Blair Brooks: Kunst in Kalifornien: Heinz Berggruen and European …

… Regional Resonances: In Search of the Transnational in Central Eastern European Art of the 1970s present an interconnected history of previously unexplored cross-border collaborations and friendships.   The second part of this special issue, with essays by Emese Kürti, Cristian Nae and Małgorzata Miśniakewicz, will come out in the second half of 2024 in ArtMargins Print published by MIT Press.   Link to the Special Issue: https://artmargins.com/regional-resonances/ …

… Where can the event series be placed in the context of the international art scene of the early ’70s? How was it possible for the Chapel Studio to become—for a brief period of time—a meeting point for artists who had never found common ground before or after?   In connecting to the theme, the Artpool Art Research Centre remembered the Balatonboglár scene of 50 years ago by organising its own exhibition, entitled Fundamental Otherness (curated by György Galántai). You can read …