‘social history’

… National frameworks and containers are often too narrow to fully grasp the complexities of social, historical, and artistic development. What, then, should replace methodological nationalism—multiculturalism, internationalism, or something else entirely? These questions are particularly pressing when viewed from the perspective of Eastern Europe, a region historically shaped by its position at the crossroads of Eastern and Western imperial powers, and where universalist claims have …

… applied graphics, and by others as the co-creator of one of the most cited works of historicist socialist realism, Before the Storm (1951). Beyond exploring Konecsni’s body of works from new perspectives, the authors of this new volume published by the Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI), draw on the findings of new Hungarian and international research with respect to the period in order to present aspects of—and groups of works from—his oeuvre that are either …

… by Júliusz Huth and Kristóf Nagy and published by the Central European Research Institute for  Art History (KEMKI), offers a comprehensive exploration of this era. Featuring over fifty essays, reflections and reviews originally published during the 1980s, alongside a new, comprehensive study on the art criticism of the decade, the volume delves into the art discourses of the era. The volume examines key artistic debates on postmodernism, new painting, socialism, and the art market, situating …

… the extent to which they interfered in reality, the willingness and capacity to enact social change. Some wrote manifestos. They considered expanding the possibilities of the language they used and the meanings of individual words. They attempted to create new alphabets. They created visual poetry. They created a space for ecology. They discussed topics which were pioneering, truly revolutionary, suppressed and virtually non-existent in the public debate – at least in the eastern …

… political movements, intellectual circles or actors generated by private (family, friends) social capital. Program Thursday, 10 October 09:15–09:30 Registration 09:30–09:40 Welcome by Zsolt Petrányi, Deputy Director for Research, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest 09:40–09:50 Welcome by Dávid Fehér, Head of KEMKI 09:50–10:00 Welcome by Magdolna Gucsa and Eszter Őze Session 1: Women, Class and Labour Movement 10.00–10.20 Diana Plachendovskaya, EHESS, …