‘emigration’
Elérhetőek a Central and Eastern European Artists in Interwar Metropolises konferencia előadásai
The recordings of the international conference, held in 2024 in connection with the „Organising the Spectacle” Research on the Avant-garde organized by the Research Department, are now available on the conference website and on the KEMKI Youtube channel . Feel free to explore!
Éva Forgács: Challenging National Art Histories
… later efforts to re-graft artists to the culture of their country of origin. Outlining patterns of emigration related to the time, the medium, and the adjustment to the new country, I will demonstrate the complications of re-grafting in the example of Victor Vasarely. Éva Forgács is a Professor Emerita of art history at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME) in Budapest, Hungary, and an Adjunct Professor at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. She has …
Egyenlő és egyenlőtlen
Lecture on Josef and Anni Albers by Nicholas Fox Weber, cultural historian, Bauhaus scholar and Executive Director of The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation Josef Albers, one of the most prominent representatives of geometric abstraction and one of the leading colour theorists, began his career as a teacher at the Bauhaus. After the school closed in 1933, he and his wife Anni Albers, a textile …
CFP: Central and Eastern European Artists in Interwar Metropolises
… analysing individual cases and oeuvres of forced or voluntary, and temporary or permanent artistic emigration, the conference will address how networks may have centred on traditional institutions of artist education, political movements, intellectual circles or actors generated by private (family, friends) social capital. The social relations of modern metropolises were shaped by industrialisation, urbanisation, changing conditions of work and leisure, developing infrastructure, housing …
Central and Eastern European Artists in Interwar Metropolises
… analysing individual cases and oeuvres of forced or voluntary, and temporary or permanent artistic emigration, keynote speakers Éva Forgács, (Art Center College of Design, Pasadena; Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest) and Angela Lampe (Musée national d’art moderne – Centre Pompidou, Paris), as well as participants from six countries will consider how these networks may have centred on traditional institutions of artist education, political movements, intellectual circles or …