Photography and the Visual Arts in Cold War Hungary
Exploring the relationship between state-sanctioned and restricted art practices
Project Details
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- Years 2013 – 2017
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Chemical Plant in Olefin Factory in Leninváros (after 1990 Tiszaújváros), 1978, Photo by Péter Horváth. Gelatin silver on orange paper, 7.1 x 10.5 in. Getty Research Institute, 2011.M.8, Box 3. © Péter Horváth
About
Goal
This research untangled the complex history of Hungary’s art production during the Cold War. The project situated Hungarian visual arts in the context of the Ministry of Culture’s informal policy known as the 3Ts: türni, tiltani, támogatni (promote, tolerate, ban). Focusing on state censorship, it reexamined the relationship between official and unofficial art cultures.
News
- 2018
Film
Looking into the Camera: Amateur Films, Surveillance, and Video Art in Cold War
- 2018
Event
Dream Reconstructions, by Miklos Erdély
- 2018
Event
A Bibó Reader
- 2018
Film
Gyula Gazdag and Cold War Hungarian Cinema
- 2018
Press Release
Art in Cold War Hungary Focus of Exhibition from Getty and Wende Museum