Promote, tolerate, ban: art and culture in Cold War Hungary

Abstract

"Promote, Tolerate, Ban presents the clash between Socialist modern and radical aesthetics shaped by the cultural policies of the Jánós Kádár regime (1956-1989) and highlights the key protagonists of the scene in Cold War Hungary."--ECIP summary.

Contents

Foreword / Thomas W. Gaehtgens and Justinian Jampol -- A tempest of creativity: an introduction to Hungarian art and politics / Steven Mansbach -- The art of fabricating realities and forgetting history / Isotta Poggi -- The 3Ts: the Modernist puzzle in Cold War Hungary / Cristina Cuevas-Wolf -- Relations and reality: avant-garde artists and applied arts beyond the 3Ts / Dávid Fehér -- The paradox of consumer objects and modern living in Hungary: approaches to understanding the culture of daily life, 1956-89 / Tibor Valuch -- Documentary traces of Hungarian event-based art / Katalin Cseh-Varga -- In the underground between East and West / Géza Perneczky.