A LECTURE OF PROF.DR. LASZLO BEKE
A LECTURE OF PROF. DR. LASZLO BEKE
HUNGARIAN ART OF 60S AND 70S
March 10, 2010 at 18:00 p.m.
THE LECTURE ROOM, HOME OF HDLU
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The lecture of Prof. dr. László Beke, Director of the Research Institute of Art History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Professor at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in Budapest, will focus on the Hungarian art of the heroic period of neo-avant-garde art of the 1960s and 1970s. The topic also includes mentioning of the parallel phenomena in Croatia and this part of Europe. The period was defined by the special conditions of the soft dictatorship of the so called “socialism”. In the eyes of the bureaucrats the art scene was classified in 3 categories: “supported”, “tolerated” and “prohibited”, according to the status of its creators. The accent will be on the role of the artists like: Tibor Hajas, Miklós Erdély, Dóra Mauer and others.
Prof.dr. László Beke’s CV:
-Director of the Research Institute of Art History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Budapest)
-Professor at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts
- Teaches at several Hungarian institutions
-Lectured at the University of Lyon 2 – Louis Lumiere (1988-89)
-Chief Curator of the 19th and 20th Centuries collections at the Hungarian National Gallery (1988 -1995)
-Was a General Director of Mucsarnok/Kunsthalle in Budapest.
-Curator of the numerous exhibitions including the Hungarian Pavilion at the Venice Biennial in 1996, author of many texts and books about 20th century and contemporary art.
-Member of CIHA, RIHA, European Academy of Art and Sciences, Advisory Board of the reviews Ars (Bratislava) and Perspective (Paris), Editorial Board of Acta Historiae Artium (Budapest).
-Awarded by the Széchenyi-Prize of the Hungarian Republic, Chevalier de l’Arts et Lettres de la République Francaise, Doctor Honoris Causa of Univerity of Fine Arts (Bucarest)
* The project is achieved in collaboration with the Embassy of the Republic Hungary
The lecture will be consecutively translated from Hungarian to Croatian language
