Local Contexts / International Networks – Avant-Garde Magazines in Central Europe (1910–1935)
International conference | Kassák Museum Budapest | 17–19
September 2015
The
subject of the conference is the ‘Central European avant-garde
magazine’, arguably the most important medium of communication for
progressive literature and visual arts in the region during and after WWI. Given the multifaceted nature of the phenomenon,
the analysis will take an interdisciplinary perspective and employ
several different approaches. The avant-garde magazine will be examined
as a discursive space of avant-garde communication, as a
Gesamtkunstwerk, and as a historical document. As the recent conjuncture
in scholarship positions the art of the region in the international
context, our aim is to draw more attention to the interrelationships between the local contexts and international
networks of Central European avant-gardes.
How did the different
cultural and historical characteristics affect the ‘local’ avant-gardes
of Central Europe? How are the avant-garde magazines of Central Europe
related to each other? Accordingly, how could ‘Central European
avant-gardes’ be described from the perspectives of Kraków, Warsaw,
Prague, Bratislava or Budapest? Through detailed case studies, the
conference will emphasize the complex and problematic nature of Central
European avant-garde magazines regarding the questions of national/local
and international/cosmopolitan. The conference includes
monographic, thematic and problem-oriented lectures on current research
on local avant-garde magazines published during WWI and
in the interwar period.
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Thursday, 17 September 2015.
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9.30–10.00 |
Registration
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10.00–11.00 |
Plenary I.
Edit Sasvári, Kassák Museum The Kassák Museum in Central and East European perspective
Eszter Balázs, Kodolányi János University of Applied Arts ‘Artist and Public Intellectual, Artist or Public Intellectual’ – Polemics of the Hungarian Avant-Garde on New Art, 1915–1918
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11.00–11.30 |
Coffee
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11.30-13.30 |
Session I.
Oliver Botar, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg Moholy-Nagy: Art as Information / Information as Art
Jindrich Toman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Moholy Nagy’s idea of a Synthetic Journal
Sonia de Puineuf, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest “Syntetische Zeitschrift” – Study cases Nová Bratislava and Nový Svet
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13.30–15.00 |
Lunch
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15.00–17.00 |
Session II.
Lucie Česálková, Masaryk University, Brno Artuš Černík between national and media contexts
Vendula Hnídková, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague Styles of Styl – Platform for Czech modern architecture
Przemysław Strożek, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw Chaplin goes viral – Avant-garde publications and the images of popular culture
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18.00–20.00 |
Dinner at the Petőfi Literary Museum
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Friday, 18 September 2015.
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10.00–11.00 |
Plenary II.
Gábor Dobó – Klára Rudas – Merse Pál Szeredi, Kassák Museum Curators’ introduction to the exhibition ‘Signal to the World – War ∩ Avant-Garde ∩ Kassák’
Merse Pál Szeredi, Kassák Museum The politics of artistic utopia – Lajos Kassák and MA in Vienna (1920–1925)
Gábor Dobó, Kassák Museum “Extraterrestrials in Budapest” – Self-description of Kassák’s avant-garde magazine Dokumentum (1926–1927)
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11.00–11.30 |
Coffee
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11.30-13.30 |
Session III.
Kinga Siewior, Jagiellonian University, Kraków From aesthetics to anthropology – The concept of East in Zenit magazine
Jakub Kornhauser, Jagiellonian University, Kraków From repulsion to attraction – A long story of surrealism in Romanian avant-garde magazines
Dušan Barok, Monoskop, Bratislava Body of Thought – Artists’ texts and their contribution to theory
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13.30–15.00 |
Lunch
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15.00–16.30 |
Session IV.
Klára Prešnajderová, Slovak Design Museum, Bratislava Two magazines with two different concepts – Slovenská Grafia and Nová Bratislava
Michał Burdziński, University of Warsaw, Warsaw How much did our graphic arts fly aloft? On defining the spirit of avant-garde pretensions in an impecunious world
Hanna Marciniak, Charles University, Prague The D Programme and the Czech avant-garde in the 1940s
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16.30–17.00 |
Coffee
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17.00–18.30 |
Session V.
Markéta Theinhardt, Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris L’Art et les Artistes: Revue mensuelle d’art ancien et moderne (1905–1939) – Central European art between modernism and conservatism
Vojtěch Lahoda, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague Global Art History “avant la lettre” – The Case of Umělecký měsíčník (1911–1914)
Lenka Bydžovská, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague On the extreme left? The Devětsil monthly ReD in international networks (1927–1931)
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20.00–22.00 |
Dinner
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Saturday, 19 September 2015.
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10.00–12.00 |
Session VI.
Piotr Rypson, National Museum in Warsaw Tadeusz Peiper’s strategy for Zwrotnica magazine
Michalina Kmiecik, Jagiellonian University, Kraków The aftermath of Zwrotnica? Kraków avant-garde and its magazines in the 1930s
Michał Wenderski, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań Between Poland and the Low Countries – Mutual relations and cultural exchange between constructivist magazines and avant-garde formations
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12.00–13.00 |
Lunch
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13.00–14.30 |
Roundtable On the research of Central-European avant-garde magazines
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The conference is accompanied by the temporary exhibition entitled ‘Signal to the World – War ∩ Avant-Garde ∩ Kassák’ dedicated to the first avant-garde magazine of Lajos Kassák, A Tett [The Act] published between 1915 and 1916. The exhibition marks the centenary of Kassák’s ‘debut’. The Kassák Museum is the only thematic showroom of the historical avant-garde in Hungary. Its objectives in this regard are to reach a broader audience and to establish the museum as a regional focus point for research into the avant-garde and modernism.
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The conference is
organized by Gábor Dobó and Merse Pál Szeredi (Kassák Museum). Cooperating partners are the Charles
University, the Jagiellonian University, the Adam Mickiewicz
University, the University of Warsaw, the Masaryk University, the
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, the Polish Academy of
Sciences, the Slovak Academy of Sciences, the National Museum in Warsaw,
the Slovak Design Museum and Monoskop.org.
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|| REGISTRATION
Due to the limited seating capacity of the
conference venue in the Kassák Museum we would like to ask everyone who
is interested in participating to register by 11 September 2015 at kassakmuzeum@pim.hu.
When
you register, please state which days of the conference you would like
to attend. (Facebook event RSVP does not count as registration!)
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The conference is supported by the International Visegrad Fund and Centre français de recherche en sciences sociales (CEFRES).
