Seeing the Whole Picture: Studies on the Work of György Konecsni
György Konecsni’s art is characterized by a diversity of styles and forms. He is known by many as a poster artist and a pioneer of modern Hungarian 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 already well known, or have been sidestepped or deliberately kept invisible. The scope of explored works ranges from tourism-oriented, commercial and political posters to public art, from monumental-scale historicist paintings to abstract expressionist works, from stamp designs to literary illustrations, from caricatures to sgraffito art, from inventive typographic solutions to experimental surface design techniques.
(Excerpt from the foreword by David Fehér)
Editors: Katalin Bakos, Eszter Szőnyeg-Szegvári
Authors: Katalin Bakos, Sára Bárdi, Barbara Dudás, Anikó Katona, Ágnes Képiró, Mária Madár, Emese Révész, Jenő Szabó, Eszter Szőnyeg-Szegvári, György Szücs, Károly Tóth, Ádám Várkonyi, Dániel Véri.
The book was designed by Gergő Zámbó and typeset by Imre Kiss.
The book is available for purchase at the bookstore and webshop of the Museum of Fine Arts and the Hungarian National Gallery.