Hungarian art : confrontation and revival in the modern movement / Éva Forgács.

Author
Forgács, Éva [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st edition.
Published/​Created
Los Angeles, CA : DoppelHouse Press, 2016.
Description
303 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

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    Leading modernist scholar Éva Forgács corrects long-standing misconceptions about Hungarian art while examining the work and social milieu of dozens of important Hungarian artists, including such figures as László Moholy-Nagy and Lajos Kassák, to paint a fascinating image of 20th century Budapest as a microcosm of the social and political turmoil raging across Europe between the late 19th century and the collapse of the Soviet Era. - Provided by publisher.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographic references (pages 283-293) and index.
    Contents
    • 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 for 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
    • Highlights of the Iparterv Exhibition
    • "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 Lajos Vajda and Béla Kondor
    • László Fehér: The enigma of being there
    • A Malevich revival in Hungary during and after the Cold War: István Ná́dler, Margit Szilvitsky, 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
    • Afterword: Canon and apocrypha.
    ISBN
    • 9780997003413 ((alk. paper))
    • 0997003413
    LCCN
    2016958416
    OCLC
    944934065
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