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… 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 present publications from 1986 to 2003 selected from the rich fanzine collection of the Artpool Art Research Center. The two themes of the selected publications—music (related to punk and other alternative subcultures and/or thematizing music) and political or social …

… The archive contains important documents of Dóra Maurer's and Tibor Gáyor's art: manuscripts, photographs, sketches of Dóra Maurer's visual and performance art, documents of her pedagogical work, along with the professional correspondence of the two artists. With the adoption of the SUMUS Archive – following its processing – one of the greatest Hungarian art archives of the second half of the twentieth century will be accessible and researchable at KEMKI. Significant new research on these …

… 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. This intense period seems to have come to an end in the 2000s with the rise of the internet. Subcultural discourse has largely moved online and zines that have become widespread in the art world—and which are not presented in this collection display—prioritize aesthetic quality over …

… publications, 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 photojournalism in the post-WWII …

… 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 panorama of German …