Art in Hungary, 1956-1980 : doublespeak and beyond /
The international significance of the art produced in Hungary in the 1960s and 1970s has come to the fore in recent years. Nevertheless, studies of modern and contemporary art in eastern Europe during the Soviet era tend to focus on their relationship to Western art, with an emphasis on the parallel...
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| Language Notes: | Includes translations from the Hungarian. |
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London ; New York :
Thames & Hudson,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Autonomy and doublespeack: art in Hungary in the 1960s and 1970s / Edit Sasvári
- Under eastern eyes / Péter György
- Hungarian culture +/- Europe: positions and self-images of avant-garde and modernist movements in Hungary, 1915-68 / Gábor Dobó and Merse Pál Szeredi
- The art sphere as a grey zone: techniques of power and the context of artistic practices / Júlia Perczel
- Liberty controlled: institutional settings of the east European neo-avant-garde / Maja Fowkes and Reuben Fowkes
- Creative (dis)courses: the forms, methods and locations of alternative art pedagogy in Hungary / Flóra Barkóczi
- Reforming socialist realism: encounters of eastern modernization and western modernism / Sándor Hornyik
- (Dis)figuring reality: new forms of figuration in Hungarian painting, 1957-75 / Dávid Fehér
- Abstract boundaries: the changing principles of art policy in 1958-68 / József Mélyi
- Domesticated modernism: the role of western émigré artists in the cultural politics of the Kádár era / Lóránt Bódi
- Taboo and trauma: 1956 / Géza Boros
- The Holocaust and the arts: paths and crossroads / Daniel Véri
- Out of private public opinion into shared personal opinion: the public, the private and the political / Edit András
- Limited access to greatness: the position of women artists / Hedvig Turai
- Soft-spoken encounters: international exchanges and the Hungarian 'underground' / Klara Kemp-Welch
- Poetry in action: language as a performative medium in the Hungarian neo-avant-garde / Emese Kürti
- Working in the twice-mined semantic minefield: the politics of Hungarian neo-avant-garde movements / Magdalena Radomska
- The influx of images: photo, experimental film and video art in the Hungarian neo-avant-garde / Katalin Székely.