“The Garbage Dump”, “God's Piglet” and Other Documents of Hungarian Underground Art, 1960s-1990s
| dc.audience | Audience::Audience::Art Libraries Section | |
| dc.audience | Audience::Audience::Social Science Libraries Section | |
| dc.conference.sessionType | Art Libraries with Social Science Libraries | |
| dc.conference.venue | Centennial Hall | |
| dc.contributor.author | Peter, Christina | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-09-24T08:48:13Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-09-24T08:48:13Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper takes a look at the social context of the arts in Hungary between the 1956 revolution for independence and the end of Soviet dominance in 1989. The author’s purpose is to examine the alternative art scene that developed in defiance of repressive cultural policies through the lens of underground art periodicals, to trace the intricate interrelationship between politics, the culture of oppression the arts, and to show how short-lived, ephemeral publications played a crucial role in fostering a community of non-conformist neo-avantgarde artists. Selected periodicals covering a variety of subjects, including theory and criticism, experimental art, rock music and visual poetry, are analyzed. | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Haraszti, Miklós. 1987. The Velvet Prison: Artists under State Socialism. New York: Basic Books. 96-98. Sasvári, Edit. 2000. “TTT gyűjtemény”. Accessed July 3, 2017. http://www.artpool.hu/veletlen/naplo/1027.html On György Aczél and cultural policies, see: Révész, Sándor. 199. Aczél és korunk. Budapest: Sík; Varga, Ágota, ed. 2013. Aczél-történetek: beszélgetések tiltott, tűrt és támogatott kortársakkal Aczél Györgyről és a Kádár-korszakról. Pécs: Alexandra. In the realm of journals, the saga of the literary and art magazine Mozgó Világ (The World in Motion), which from 1975 to 1983 traveled the full spectrum from supported to prohibited, may serve as a typical example. The subject of cultural policies under Communism has become the topic of an extensive corpus of scholarly literature. Klara Kemp-Welch offers a thorough overview of the end of pluralism in Hungarian cultural life in the late 1940s, the dismantling of artists’ groups and the reorganization of artistic life in accordance with Socialist Realist orthodoxy. See: Kemp-Welch, Klara. 2014. Antipolitics in Central European Art: Reticence as Dissidence under Post-Totalitarian Rule, 1956-1989. London: I.B. Tauris. See especially the chapter on dissent, 101-140. Galántai, György, and Júlia Klaniczay, eds. 2013. Artpool: The Experimental Art Archive of East-Central Europe. Budapest: Artpool. 106-121. See: Tarczali, Andrea. 2002. “Mitől alternatív az alternatív kiadvány?” Accessed July 3, 2017. http://www.artpool.hu/veletlen/naplo//0605b.html Demszky, Gábor. 1985. 5 Years of Hungarian Samizdat: Bibliography of Hungarian Printed Political Samizdat, December 1981-November 1985. Budapest: Rajk László. Galántai, György. 1983. Aktuális level 1. English summary. Perneczky, Géza. 1990?. A háló: alternatív művészeti áramlatok a folyóirat-kiadványok tükrében. Hungary: Héttorony könyvkiadó. – Also published in English in 1993 under the title The Magazine Network: The Trends of Alternative Art in the Light of Their Periodicals, 1968-1988. Köln: Edition Soft Geometry. Bényi, Csilla. n.d. “Underground/alternatív/szamizdat irodalmi és képzőművészeti periodikumok bibliográfiája.” Accessed August 1, 2017. http://www.tankonyvtar.hu/hu/tartalom/tkt/ne-ma-ne-ma/ch20.html See the publication for the exhibition: Várnagy, Tibor and John P. Jacob, eds. 1990. Hidden Story: Samizdat from Hungary & Elsewhere. New York: Franklin Furnace. On the history of the Balatonboglár exhibitions, see: Klaniczay, Júlia and Edit Sasvári, eds. 2003. Törvénytelen avantgárd: Galántai György balatonboglári kápolnaműterme 1970-1973. Budapest: Artpool-Balassi. Forgács, Éva. 2016. Hungarian Art: Confrontation and Revival in the Modern Movement. Los Angeles: Doppelhouse Press. 278. Translated by Krisztina Sarkadi-Hart. Galántai, György. 1983. Aktuális levél 1. Back cover. My translation. For a detailed analysis of AL and especially its relationship with the officially published art journals, see: Havasréti, József. 2009. “Az Aktuális Levél esztétikája és (mediális) archeológiája”. Accessed August 9, 2017. http://www.artpool.hu/2009/HavasretiAL/index.html Világnézettségi Magazin. 1984. Issue 1. My translation. Helyettes Szomjazók. 1984. Kiáltvány. Accessed August 6, 2017. http://www.c3.hu/~ligal/helyettesszomlyazok20.html Printed and online documentation in English on a current retrospective exhibition of the group’s work in Hungary uses “substitute thirsters”. See e.g. “Budburst: The Early period of the Substitute Thirsters, 1984-1987”. In Hidden Story the excellent translator Judy Szöllősy renders it as “Those who are thirsty and substitutes”. Accessed August 6, 2017. http://budapestgaleria.hu/uj/2017-exhibitions/substitute-thirsters-budburst/?lang=en. For the background, history and detailed analysis of “Szétfolyóirat” see: Brouillette, Amy. 2009. “Remapping Samizdat: Underground Publishing and the Hungarian Avant-Garde, 1966 to 1975”. MA dissertation, Central European University, Budapest. www.etd.ceu.hu/2009/brouillette_amy.pdf Géza Perneczky translates the title as “Dissolved”. See: Perneczky, 249. For the complete listing of all the articles of the journal, see: Bényi, Csilla. “Az Expresszió Önmanipuláló Szétfolyóirat bibliográfiája”. Ars Hungarica, 2008/1-2. 377-380. Hap, Béla. 1973. “Halk magyar underground kiáltvány”. Expresszió – Önmanipuláló Szétfolyóirat, 2. Excerpts in my translation. Perneczky, 219. See e.g.: Sükösd, Miklós. 2013. “A szamizdat mint tiposzféra: földalatti nyomtatási kultúra és független politikai kommunikáció a volt szocialista országokban”. Accessed August 12, 2017. www.mediakutato.hu/cikk/2013_02_nyar/01_szamizdat_tiposzfera.pdf | |
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| dc.identifier.uri | https://repository.ifla.org/handle/20.500.14598/6143 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.rights | Attribution 4.0 International | |
| dc.rights.accessRights | open access | |
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| dc.subject.keyword | Underground periodicals | |
| dc.subject.keyword | dissident art | |
| dc.subject.keyword | Hungarian art | |
| dc.subject.keyword | neo-avantgarde | |
| dc.subject.keyword | Artpool | |
| dc.title | “The Garbage Dump”, “God's Piglet” and Other Documents of Hungarian Underground Art, 1960s-1990s | en |
| dc.type | Article | |
| ifla.Unit | Section:Art Libraries Section | |
| ifla.Unit | Section::Social Science Libraries Section | |
| ifla.oPubId | https://library.ifla.org/id/eprint/1826/ |
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