Szöveghasználati gyakorlatok a nyugati magyar képzőmûvészetben a két világháború között
Practices of Textuality in Western Hungarian Visual Arts Between the Two World Wars

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the evolution of the relationship between text and image in Western Hungarian visual art between the two world wars, with particular attention to the influences of the avant-garde and the Bauhaus. It briefly demonstrates how typography, calligraphy, and linguistic fragmentation became one of the defining means of expression in modern art, from Cubism through Dadaism and Constructivism to early conceptual art. Through an examination of the works of Lajos Kassák, László Moholy-Nagy, Gyula Pap, Marcell Breuer, and Otti Berger, the article demonstrates the association between visual composition and linguistic meaning-making, and examines how themes such as emigration, cultural disruption, and technological advancement are manifested within these works. The author also points out that the Hungarian avant-garde was not merely a follower of Western trends, but an active shaper of the modern reinterpretation of the image-text relationship, which created an important precedent for later neo-avant-garde and conceptual art.

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