Hungarian Art

Éva Forgács

Description

An engaging and insightful collection of essays and rarely-seen imagery that traces the development of modernism in Hungarian art, from birth to maturation and through several generations. Written in an accessible way for an international audience and reflecting on socio-political currents.

This wide-ranging collection by Éva Forgács, a leading scholar of Modernism, corrects long-standing misconceptions about Hungarian art while examining the social milieu and work of dozens of important Hungarian artists, including László Moholy-Nagy and Lajos Kassák and looks at several permutations of modernism, from the avant-garde to neo-avant-garde. A fascinating portrait of twentieth-century Budapest emerges from the book, which shows how it became a microcosm of the social and political turmoil raging across twentieth-century Europe. Forgács's text is as much a cultural history as it is a deeply satisfying dive into one country's unique art history.

INTRODUCTION

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ENLIGHTENMENT VERSUS THE ‘NATIONAL GENIUS’
Attempts at Constructing Modernism and National Identity through Visual Expression in Hungary

THE SAFE HAVEN OF A NEW CLASSICISM
György Lukács, Lajos Fülep, Leo Popper and the Quest for Aesthetics, 1904–1912

CONSTRUCTIVE FAITH IN DECONSTRUCTION
Dada in Hungarian Art

BETWEEN CULTURES
Hungarian Concepts of Constructivism as a Political Act

IN THE VACUUM OF EXILE
The Hungarian Activists in Vienna

EVERYONE IS TALENTED
László Moholy-Nagy’s Synthesis of Reform Pedagogy and Utopian Modernism

A FORGOTTEN GROUP: THE GALLERY TO THE FOUR DIRECTIONS
Theory, politics and the practice of abstract art in Budapest 1945–1948

DOES DEMOCRACY GROW UNDER PRESSURE?
Strategies of the Hungarian Neo-Avant-garde from the Late-1960s through the 1970s

“TODAY IS A BEAUTIFUL DAY”
The “New Sensibility” or “New Subjectivism” in the Hungarian Post-Avant-garde of the 1980s

DECONSTRUCTING CONSTRUCTIVISM IN POST-COMMUNIST HUNGARY
László Rajk and the Na-Ne Gallery

AN EXISTENTIALIST PAINTER: ISTVÁN FARKAS
Redress of an Artist’s Suppressed Legacy

MIKLÓS ERDÉLY, TIME TRAVELER

LONE RADICALS
The Brittle Lines of Béla Kondor and Lajos Vajda

LÁSZLÓ FEHÉR
The Enigma of Being There

A MALEVICH REVIVAL IN HUNGARY DURING AND AFTER THE COLD WAR
István Nádler, Margit Szilvitzky, and the Quest for the Transcendental

“ART HAS BECOME A CHARACTER ISSUE”
Péter Donáth, and the Price of Independence

ARTPOOL
A Radically Open Budapest Archive of Experimental Art

WORKS CITED

ADDITIONAL REFERENCES

IMAGE LIST

INDEX

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Sujets

• Modern
• Hungría
• Contemporary history
• Modernism
• Hungarian
• Hungary
• Art
• Contemporary
• History
• Hongrois
• Hongrie

Informations

• Publié par: DoppelHouse Press
• Date de parution: 12 septembre 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781954600256
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 30 Mo

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