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

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"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.

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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.