Category: The Arts

The director uses a multitude of early film clips, photographs, and interviews, adding thereby a new dimension and greater quality. He primarily uses the collection of the ethnographer Elemér Bakó. The documentaries are poignant; he quotes the famous lines from Attila József about a million and a half of our

Hungarian Painting 1830–1920Kogart Gallery Budapest MI: You were the curator of a recent exhibition entitled In the Current of Impressionism, Hungarian Painting 1830–1920, held at the Kogart Gallery in Budapest, April-August 2009. How did this exhibition come about? ASzM: The exhibition was the initiative of Péter Fertoszögi, the director of Kogart

“[W]HY THE BACK BROKE” One Woman in the War: Hungary 1944–1945, by Alaine Polcz, translated by Albert Tezla1 Two years ago Fiona Duff Kahn, an editor unknown to me, wrote from New York, inviting me to write brief personal essays for a pocket reader on books forgotten or neglected. The

While we were still living in the cellar, where people bickered and were impatient and edgy, we were often told how truly rare it was for a mother and daughter to love each other so much; we never raised our voices to each other. I corrected them. Mami was my

ÉVA FORGÁCS: Bauhaus (Bauhaus)2nd extended edition, Pécs, Jelenkor, 2010. 264 p.ISBN 978 963 676 489 0 An expert biography of the Bauhaus theory, which emphasized the unity of life and art. The author portrays the Hungarian artists László Moholy-Nagy, Alfréd Forbát, Marcell Breuer, Andor Weininger and Farkas Molnár, and their