‘emigration’

… later efforts to re-graft artists to the culture of their country of origin. Outlining patterns of emigration related to the time, the medium, and the adjustment to the new country, I will demonstrate the complications of re-grafting in the example of Victor Vasarely.   Éva Forgács is a Professor Emerita of art history at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME) in Budapest, Hungary, and an Adjunct Professor at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. She …

… analysing individual cases and oeuvres of forced or voluntary, and temporary or permanent artistic emigration, the conference will address how networks may have centred on traditional institutions of artist education, political movements, intellectual circles or actors generated by private (family, friends) social capital. The social relations of modern metropolises were shaped by industrialisation, urbanisation, changing conditions of work and leisure, developing infrastructure, housing …