A cinóber piros madár

Author(s): Anna Tüskés / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 2/2015

Illustrating books is a less-known aspect of the diverse oeuvre of Endre Bálint. The exhibition organised on the occasion of the artist’s 100th birth anniversary and the exhibition catalogue “The Eighth Church. Endre Bálint (1914–1986)” published by the Hungarian National Gallery briefly mentioned the illustrations, but these are considerably more significant and merit greater attention. The literature on Bálint’s work analysed especially the illustration series to the Bible and The Tragedy of Man by Imre Madách. In 2013 the Petőfi Museum of Literature purchased and made possible the research of thousands of letters and photographs by the artist in the Kassák Museum, which contributes greatly to the research of the oeuvre and within it the illustrations. The result of the study of the illustrated books and Bálint’s correspondence outlined a corpus of more than forty illustrated volumes, which I analysed inthe context of the whole oeuvre and compared with the paintings. In this study I analyse about thirty illustrated books in greater detail, divided into four groups according to the illustration technique: 1. black-and-white illustrations with ink, pen or linocut technique; 2. black and white plus one additional color images; 3. color images with pencil, watercolor, monotype and montage technique; 4. full-page color pictures, black and white (plus one color) and / or color inset drawings.

Vallásosság Csík-, Gyergyó- és Kászonszékek esperességeiben 1829-ben

Author(s): István Nemes / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 2/2015

Our study deals with several aspects of Catholic religious life in Transylvania during the first half of the nineteenth century. We have investigated the records of canonical visits performed by Bishop Miklós Kovács in 1829 to the deaconries of Alcsík, Felcsík and Gyergyó. The region represents a compact and closed geographical unit, mainly populated by Roman Catholic Székelys and reflecting an image of a typical pre-modern rural world. The religious life of the region has the same pre-modern characteristics: mass-worship; individual religious life controlled by the rules of a traditional community which exercises strict supervision; and manifestations of a typical Baroque, Tridentine popular religiosity. However, the scope of the present paper has allowed us to touch only on a few topics which form part of wider religious life and worship. We have described the order of Sunday and holiday church services, traced the characteristics and efficiency of preaching, and sketched a picture of moral habits as they were presented in our sources. We have emphasised that modern religious and political ideas, such as those of the Enlightenment and French Revolution, had not yet penetrated this world sunk in a dream of centuries-old feudalism and traditionalism. However, we have also pointed out that the Székely patriarchal world witnessed a level of discontent linked to the order of the time that increased consistently. Growing disappointment, once saturated with ideas of recentlyborn liberalism and the reformist movement, led to the political “explosion” of Székely-land in 1848, which included religious issues too.

Konstruált terek identitásképző szerepe a Sinistra körzetben

Author(s): Rana Salah / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 2/2015

My essay introduces the connection between built-up identities and created spaces in Ádám Bodor’s novel Sinistra körzet (1992). The paper points out that the characters generated by a totalitarian dystopia can only come into existence if they lose all identification marks, and thus an oppressed, peripheral personality is constructed. Besides, to terminate their position as an outlander in the sector, they need to assume a false existence and carry an identification disk. Debating this aspect of the novel requires examining the role of effects inside the sector as well as the connection and the interactions between internal spaces and identities. As a result, the paper reaches an interpretation which explores another side of the Ceauşescu regime.

A gótikus stílusról

Author(s): Charles-Louis de Secondat Montesquieu / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 2/2015

A lélek üdvösségéről

Author(s): Georg Simmel / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 2/2015

A híres gyulafehérvár-nagyenyedi Bethlen-Kollégium alapítása és története (részlet)

Author(s): Ferenc Pápai Páriz / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 2/2015

Szilády Áron élete

Author(s): Gábor Zila / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 2/2015

Ván Benjámin: Szilády Áron élete. Szerk. Szakál Aurél. Kiskunhalas, Kiskunhalasi Református Egyházközség – Szilády Áron Társaság – Thorma János Múzeum, 2012, 287 p.

A termékeny összecsapás

Author(s): Ferenc Ruzsa / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 3-4/2015

In this paper an important possible source of philosophical thinking in India is suggested: the fruitful conflict of two cultures. There are many clear traces in the Rg-Veda of the alien religion that the invading Aryan tribes found in India. Combining these data with the archaeological findings from the area, that is, from the Indus Valley Civilisation, and also with some very general considerations, the following picture emerges: The warlike, nomadic pastoralist Vedic people followed a sacrificial polytheistic religion with very strong masculine bias, while the native peasants practised fertility-oriented agricultural magic where Mother Earth had a central role.Features of the two cultures mingled in many interesting ways. For the victorious Aryans the impressive idea of the great female was distasteful for a long time and they tried to transform the concept of the world-woman repeatedly. The Purus a hymn of the Rg-Veda seems to be one such attempt, paving the way to the full-blown pantheism of the Bhagavad-Gītā. However, when, instead of being masculinised, the female principle is divested of its anthropomorphic traits, the neutral world-essence emerges, that is, the Brahman of the Upanis ads. This is quite clearly philosophical.

Halmos István indiai gyűjtése

Author(s): Krisztina Pálóczy / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 3-4/2015

The collecting of the objects from and the research on the Carpathian basin in Hungary has taken two forms. One was directed at the search for an ancestral home, and the other searched for exotic items. The first objects of the Hungarian National Museum’s Ethnographical Collection originate from these different expeditions, which were often connected with ethnographical collecting. The number of objects rose dramatically until the First World War. Nowadays collection units from different continents (Europe, Africa, America, Asia, Indonesia, Oceania) can be found in the Museum of Ethnography’s Regional Collections. In these collections the objects are selected not according to their type, but according to who collected them. Among the objects there are more than 2000 musical instruments from all over the world. The Asian Collection is very poor in the case of Indian musical instruments as well as in classical and folk musical instruments. In these collecions, it is possible to find some church musical instruments like flutes and drums thanks to the collecting of Xantus János, and there are also five rattles from the collecting of Tóth Jenő. Halmos István undertook two significant rounds of fieldwork before he started his Indian collecting. He was in Venezuela with Boglár Lajos in 1967–1968, and after that he gathered an important collection in Pakistan in 1978. After that, between 1985 and 1986, he organised partly official, partly private collecting in India. During this three-month fieldwork, he tried to keep good contact with the local musical institutes, he gave lectures, and he brought four musical instruments which were given to him as a present to the Musem of Ethnography in 2014.

Indiai napló 2014

Author(s): Imre Bangha / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 3-4/2015

Négy nap – négy vers

Author(s): Rabindranáth Tagore / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 3-4/2015

Nem tartom a kapcsolatot (regényrészlet)

Author(s): Susham Bedi / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 3-4/2015

Az erényes tolvajlás elixírje

Author(s): / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 3-4/2015

A két tolvaj

Author(s): / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 3-4/2015

Szulaszá dzsátaka

Author(s): / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 3-4/2015

A mi filmjeink és az ő filmjeik

Author(s): Satyajit Ray / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 3-4/2015

Az indológus indián – Baktay Ervin emlékezete

Author(s): Monika Frazer-Imregh / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 3-4/2015

Az indológus indián – Baktay Ervin emlékezete, szerk. Kelényi Béla, Hopp Ferenc Kelet-ázsiai Művészeti Múzeum, 2014, Budapest

Amrita Sher-Gil művészete

Author(s): Monika Frazer-Imregh / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 3-4/2015

Baktay Ervin: Amrita Sher-Gil művészete, ford. Hegymegi Kiss Áron. szerk. és kísérőtanulmány: Kelényi Béla, Budapest, Hopp Ferenc Ázsiai Művészeti Múzeum, 2015, 36 p.

A XXXII. OTDK Művelődéstörténet és -elmélet, Tudomány- és technikatörténet tagozatának bemutatása

Author(s): Eszter Miklós / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 3-4/2015

Emlékezés Dr. Losonczi Péter PhD-re

Author(s): Miklós Vassányi / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 3-4/2015