Aba-Novák Revisited (Illustrated)
Aba-Novák Revisited (Illustrated)
Author(s): Julianna Szűcs P.Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts
Published by: Society of the Hungarian Quarterly
Summary/Abstract: Vilmos Aba-Novák (1894–1941) is one of the key figures of the art world of inter-war Hungary. Without him, we cannot make sense of the direction that the nascent modern art of the 1920s would take, nor understand Hungarian experiments with monumental art. Yet Aba-Novák’s career, his ambivalent valuation and his recent rediscovery testify to more than just a charismatic personality and a powerful artistic oeuvre. They are symptomatic of Hungary’s past as well as its present, but most of all, of how we, the present, relate to our past.
Journal: The Hungarian Quarterly
- Issue Year: 2008
- Issue No: 192
- Page Range: 33-39
- Page Count: 7
- Language: English