The History of Hungarian Art in the Twentieth Century / Gábor Andrási, Gábor Pataki, György Szücs, András Zwickl / Corvina Kiadó 1999 / Hardcover 

ISBN-13: 9789631348095 / 978-9631348095

ISBN-10: 9631348091

Printed in Hungary

Pages 290

The story of twentieth century Hungarian art begins in 1896, the year of brilliant Millennial festivities that saw the opposition between the academic and modernist viewpoints break into the open. Alongside historicism, the art of the Secession flourished, and a handful of young artists set out for Nagybánya, the first waystation of modern Hungarian painting. The story continues with the avant-garde movements, the Group of Eight and the Activists; the official modernism of the School of Rome, the Post-Impressionist Gresham Circle during the interwar period, 1945 and its aftermath, the Fifties and the doctrines of Socialist Realism, the neo-avant-garde of the Sixties and Seventies, the political turnabout of 1989, and art after Post- Modernism.
In addition to being a comprehensive survey of this century's Hungarian art, this volume is the first to provide an account of the period from 1945 to our days, an account that is an independent, professional re-evaluation of the past fifty years, free of political pressures and censorship as well as of the various strategies formerly employed to evade them. Unlike earlier texts on Hungarian art history that emphasized so-called "progressive" tendencies, the authors here offer a more nuanced picture, with a balanced treatment of diverse movements and trends. The account of the past thirty years is a first of its kind; until now there has been no comprehensive monograph on this subject. The authors had to use new viewpoints to examine this period, and they made every effort to introduce the constantly evolving context and institutions of recent art exhibitions, galleries, periodicals - as well as works by the youngest artists.
Ten years have passed since the political changes of 1989. Since then the world has changed, as did art, but so did the outlook of art history. The end of the century has brought home the timeliness of a lively, authoritative history of 20th century Hungarian art a summation with a new outlook accessible to the general public. The freshness of approach is guaranteed by the personalities of the authors, who are young scholars, museum specialists and curators, active participants in contemporary art. Gábor Andrási (b. 1954) is director of the Társaskör Gallery of Óbuda, Gábor Pataki (b. 1955) is adjunct director of the Art History Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and editor of the art magazine Új Művészet (New Art), György Szücs (b. 1960) is secretary for research at the Hungarian National Gallery and curator of its Department of Painting, while András Zwickl (b. 1964) is curator of the Hungarian National Gallery and adjunct professor at the Hungarian Academy of Applied Arts.

Gábor Pataki is the deputy director of the Art History Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, along with his colleagues György Szücs, András Zwickl, the museologist of the Hungarian National Gallery, and Gábor Andrási. As the century drew to a close, the four art historians agreed to update Lajos Németh’s comprehensive work about the history of Hungarian art three decades after its publication to reveal the changing face of Hungarian art as it both follows and adds to changes in European art. The book is irreplaceable on the Hungarian book market, as no comprehensive work has been published on the subject in over thirty years.
The text reads chronologically, and is accompanied by color reproductions of works of art that offer a broad view of the trends in 20th century Hungarian art, from the Nagybánya school to the Roman school, from Social-Realism to conceptual art, right up to the trends of the present day.

Pataki Gábor művészettörténész, a MTA művészettörténeti Kutató Intézetének igazgatóhelyettese három társával, Szücs Györggyel, illetve Zwickl Andrással, a Magyar Nemzeti Galéria muzeológusával, valamint Andrási Gábor művészettörténésszel együtt arra vállalkozott, hogy majd három évtizeddel Németh Lajos e témában írott műve után ismét összefoglalja immár végéhez közeledő századunk magyar művészetének változatos, sokrétű, az európai fejlődést követő-kiegészítő történetét. A kötet hézagpótló a magyar könyvpiacon, mert a témáról több mint 30 éve nem jelent meg teljességre törekvő áttekintés. A kronologikusan felépített szöveghez olyan színes illusztrációs anyag járul, amely átfogó képet ad a 20. század magyar művészetének legkülönbözőbb tendenciáiról, a nagybányai festészettől a római iskolán, a szocreálon át a koncept artig és napjaink legújabb irányzataiig.

Kiadó: Corvina Kiadó

Fordító: Bátki, John

Kategória: Művészettörténet, Képzőművészet

Borító: Kötött

ISBN: 9789631348095

Oldalszám: 290

Megjelenés éve: 1999