‘reception history’

… of thousands of negatives to the Museum of Fine Arts – Central European Research Institute for Art History. The carefully prepared, information-rich collection provides an unparalleled opportunity to explore and understand the oeuvre of the first Kossuth Prize-winning photographer and to interpret the attitudes of documentary and reportage photography in Hungary after the Second World War. On 29 September 2022, in Building C of the OMRRK campus, the invited speakers of the conference entitled …

… related to Moore that took place in the Eastern Bloc (Poland, Bulgaria) and Yugoslavia. The reception of Moore’s work was different in each of these contexts due to the specific artistic and political conditions and the varying degree of awareness towards Moore’s oeuvre, acquired earlier through official or unofficial channels. The discussions surrounding the exhibition did nonetheless offer evidence that the local artistic and cultural life was stimulated by Moore’s presence, in some …