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Programme
Thursday, 17 September 2015
| 9.30–10.00 | Registration |
| 10.00–11.00 | Plenary I. Edit Sasvári, Kassák Museum: The Kassák Museum in the 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. |
| 11.00–11.30 | Coffee |
| 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. |
| 13.30–15.00 | Lunch |
| 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. |
| 18.00–20.00 | Dinner at the Petőfi Literary Museum. |
Friday, 18 September 2015
| 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). |
| 11.00–11.30 | Coffee |
| 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. |
| 13.30–15.00 | Lunch |
| 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. |
| 16.30–17.00 | Coffee |
| 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). |
| 20.00–22.00 | Dinner |
Saturday, 19 September 2015
| 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. |
| 12.00–13.00 | Lunch |
| 13.00–14.30 | Roundtable: On the research of Central-European avant-garde magazines. |