Category: VOLUME III, No. 5

HUNGARY AND THE COLD WAR

It is once again a great pleasure to be taking part in a conference at the House of Terror Museum in Budapest. Taken out of context, that sentence might sound a little odd – what kind of person has a good time amid all the evidence of brutality and oppression?

LOSERS’ CONGRESS

It is difficult to interpret the life and times of Joseph Stalin (1878?–1953) according to Euro- Atlantic world values. After the staged showdown in the wake of victory in the World War, the remarks of leading political figures at the XIXth Party Congress organised in October 1952 gave the impression

UNITED IN SEPARATION

On the Common Roots of Pennsylvanian and Hungarian Anabaptism The history of 17th and 18th century Anabaptism provides a unique link between the religious and cultural histories of the United States and Hungary. The common roots and shared traits of American and Hungarian Anabaptism, however, have received little scholarly attention

MESSAGES OF W. SH.

Poems translated with an Introduction by Tony Brinkley and with a Note by the author TRANSLATOR’S INTRODUCTION  Each of the five poems from Gyula Kodolányi’s Messages of W. Sh. is titled by a corresponding number from Shakespeare’s sonnets, and in Messages, phrases from Shakespeare’s sonnets recur both in Shakespeare’s English and in Kodolányi’s

THE INSPIRATIONS AND ASPIRATIONS OF TEXTILE ARTIST ERZSÉBET KATONA SZABÓ

From apparel design to sacral banners, from performance fashion shows to landscaping and philosophical poetry, the work of Erzsébet Katona Szabó (b. 1952) stretches a uniquely wide spectrum. Compellingly elegant and refined yet contemplative and melancholic at the same time, her creative stance draws on the complexity of a life

ORIGINS AND AMBITIONS

The exhibition Art and Design for All: The Victoria and Albert Museum (Iparművészeti Múzeum, Budapest, 15 June – 16 September 2012) traces the origins of the ever-innovative Victoria and Albert Museum (“V&A”), and looks at the influence of the museum on one of its heirs, the exhibition’s host venue, Hungary’s national Museum of

“LEARNING BY EXAMPLE” FOR EUROPEAN INTEGRATION

From South Kensington to Budapest “Collections and public monuments are the true teachers of a free people.They are not merely the teachers of practical exercises,but more importantly the schools of public taste.”  Gottfried Semper’s quote (“Science, Industry and Art: on the importance of the World Fair from 1851”) perfectly describes