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The 19th and 20th centuries saw the birth of Hungary’s greatest artists and musicians, the development of national institutions in the arts, and recurrent debates over the role of tradition vs. innovation, the use of Hungarian folk elements vs. integration into a European artistic mainstream. This course surveys the major developments in Hungarian visual art and music from the dual styles of Classicism and Romanticism (history painting, verbunkos style in music; Munkácsy, Feszty, Liszt, Erkel, and others), early twentieth-century modernist trends (folklorism and innovation in painting and in music; the Nagybánya School, The Eight, Bartók, Kodály, etc.), the introduction of socialist realism after WWII (poster art, public sculpture, the mass song, and the “Bartók trial”), important postwar émigré artists (Moholy-Nagy, Vasarely, Ligeti) and artists who remained in Hungary (Kodály, Kurtág, others) and the opening up of the Hungarian artistic world after the end of state socialism in 1990. Additional questions we will address are the role of representation of rural versus urban Hungary and the place of national and racial minorities in the Hungarian arts.
NOTE: S&H CSA and A&H CSA
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