… 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 social and political aspects. In this display we present publications from 1986 to 2003 …
Artpool Art Research Centre is one of four archives participating in the international research project 'Curating the Digital Attic Archive: A Case Study for Open-Source Approaches to Artists' Archives', and will host a meeting of archivists from Scotland and Ireland in person and an online workshop with leading experts from Denmark, Germany, and Netherlands during 24-25 October 2024. …
… conference; we can read about Syrian women's periodicals from the 1920s, the “unofficial” art magazines of the 1970s, and – in an essay authored by our colleague Magdolna Gucsa – about a German-language anti-Nazi newspaper, with Emil Szittya as its editor. This special issue is available at the following link: https://openjournals.ugent.be/jeps/issue/25780/info /
… unclear legal issues, nude photos of beauty queen candidates sold to Western European erotic magazines and a likewise disrobed sculpture of Csilla Molnár. In other words, in Hungary, the first “product” to be marketed with state backing in the period before the regime change was the female body, not independently of the objectives of party politics. In her lecture, Ágnes Eperjesi discusses the ways in which the transformation of mass culture, triggered by the period’s changing …