… into the art discourses of the era. The volume examines key artistic debates on postmodernism, new painting, socialism, and the art market, situating them within the broader historical context of the decade's transformative cultural, political and social landscape. The participants of the book launch: Bence Folyi (PTE BTK) József Havasréti (PTE BTK Kommunikáció- és Médiatudományi Tanszék) Júliusz Huth (KEMKI) Kristóf Nagy (KEMKI) The book was …
… commercial and political posters to public art, from monumental-scale historicist paintings to abstract expressionist works, from stamp designs to literary illustrations, from caricatures to sgraffito art, from inventive typographic solutions to experimental surface design techniques. (Excerpt from the foreword by David Fehér) The participants of the book launch: Katalin Bakos (co-editor, former colleague of the Museum of Fine Arts – Hungarian National Gallery) …
… into the art discourses of the era. The volume examines key artistic debates on postmodernism, new painting, socialism, and the art market, situating them within the broader historical context of the decade's transformative cultural, political and social landscape. The participants of the book launch: Sándor Hornyik (HUN-REN BTK Institute of Art History) Júliusz Huth (KEMKI) Emese Kürti (KEMKI) József Mélyi (Hungarian University of Fine Arts) Kristóf Nagy (KEMKI) Edit Sasvári …
… translation into other languages points to the special nature of the concept. In addition to painting and photography, the project brought together architecture, design, film, theater, literature and music. Photographer August Sander’s masterpiece, Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts (People of the 20th Century), established the motif of a cross-section through a society as a structural principle, as an “exhibition within an exhibition”. Together, these two perspectives opened up a broad …
… of art, or at least, who would dare to bear the responsibility for throwing them away?) Their painting palette, glasses, armchair... Their estate should be catalogued; it should be used to produce scholarly and promotional publications. The memorial museum needs managing, a memorial should be erected in front of the house, a car park must be created (possibly with a coffee stand). (László Beke: The Inhumanity of Art, 1979) László Beke was an internationally renowned art …