‘history’

… and culture of the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) in Germany, with the aim of re-reading the history of cultural production in the Weimar Republic, under the keyword “sachlich”, whose difficult translation 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 …

… 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 has been active as a curator, art critic, and essayist. Her books include several monographs and two volumes of essays published in her native Hungary, as well as the co-edited volume Between Worlds: A Sourcebook of Central …

… by 12 May. Organizers: Magdolna Gucsa (KEMKI – Central European Research Institute for Art History, Hungary) Eszter Őze (KEMKI – Central European Research Institute for Art History, Hungary) Deadline: 30 April, 2024. Dates of the Workshop: 10–11 October, 2024. Location: KEMKI – Central European Research Institute for Art History (Szabolcs street 33–35, 1135 Budapest, Hungary).

… Institut in cooperation with the Museum of Fine Arts – Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI), Budapest Organisers: Agata Pietrasik (Freie Universität Berlin), Daniel Véri (KEMKI) Supported by: Alfred Landecker Foundation Deadline for submissions: 15 March, 2023 The conference examines the memory of the Holocaust in fine arts within the Eastern Bloc from 1945 until the end of the 1960s. We are interested in realised and unrealised projects or works, created either in …