HEGYEK ÉS MÍTOSZOK, AVAGY A HEGYEK VÁLTOZÓ JELENTÉSE A MAGYAR MŰVÉSZETBEN
MYTHS AND MOUNTAINS, OR THE CHANGING MEANINGS OF MOUNTAINS IN HUNGARIAN ART

Author(s): Katalin Keserü
Subject(s): Visual Arts, Hungarian Literature
Published by: Scientia Kiadó
Keywords: 19th-century Hungarian; paintings; Tátra mountains;
Summary/Abstract: I examine a large number of paintings from the 19th-century Hungarian art parallel with its literary equivalents which represent alps and mountain peaks. The Tátra mountains in the former Hungary were not cultic places in a traditional sense, their importance was individual and subjective. However, as a geographical region and, in the context of the 19th century cultural and social movements (embourgeoisement, journeys and tourism, secularization) it has a cult in art and the development of natural world views. Landscape, instead of the common rites of fixed dates and places became a space for individual (later mass) cults and paintings are their representations.

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