‘80s research’

… the Netherlands. Kristóf Nagy, PhD, Fung Global Fellow at Princeton University, US; Permanent Research Fellow at the KEMKI - Central European Research Institute for Art History, Hungary; Prof. Dr. Lynn Rother, Professor for Provenance Studies at Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany and Adjunct Curator for Provenance at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Submission Guidelines: Please send an abstract (max. 500 words) and a short biography (max. 150 words) to …

… system under the radar: with Gábor Andrási, Tamás Török and Tibor Várnagy What was the 1980s in Hungarian art? Was it the democratization of the art system or the beginning of its market transformation? Was it the decade of death or the institutionalization of the avant-garde? Was it the heyday of the underground or painting? The 1980s are both far away and close to us: fewer and fewer key players are active, but despite the emerging research efforts on the art of the decade, we …

The 1980s as Gesamtkunstwerk. Participants:Vera Baksa-Soós, János Sugár, János Vető What was the 1980s in Hungarian art? Was it the democratization of the art system or the beginning of its market transformation? Was it the decade of when avant-garde died, or when it was institutionalized? Was it the heyday of the underground or of painting? The 1980s are both far away and close to us: fewer and …

… Publications on Music and Politics from the Artpool Collection From the second half of the 1980s alternative self-published and technically inexpensive publications emerged that (unlike samizdat) were themed around (and for) a particular subculture, scene or fan community. In the 1990s, liberation of social organizing, together with the growing availability of photocopying and Western models, created the ideal conditions for the flourishing of fanzines as a genre. In our display we …

… from the Artpool Collection” will take place on July 2nd at 5 pm. From the second half of the 1980s alternative self-published and technically inexpensive publications emerged that (unlike samizdat) were themed around (and for) a particular subculture, scene or fan community. In the 1990s, liberation of social organizing, together with the growing availability of photocopying and Western models, created the ideal conditions for the flourishing of fanzines as a genre. In our display we …