Colloque international
Visualizing Cataclysm and Renewal :Visual culture and War Representations in Central and Eastern Europe in World War One and its Aftermath (1914-1920)
29-31 mai 2019
Musée historique de Budapest
Szent György tér 2, 1014
Budapest
Contact : vcr.conference@gmail.com
Site web : https://vcr2019.wordpress.com/contact/
DAY 1
29.05.
Welcome speech by Noémi NÉPESSY 14:00-14:15
(Director of the Budapest History Museum)
Goals and ideas of the conference 14:15-14:30
Opening speech by Eszter BALÁZS and Anikó KATONA
Keynote speech by Annette BECKER (FRA) 14:30-15:30
Artists between Tragedy, Camouflage, Mourning and Mockery, 1914-1918.
Coffee break 15:30-15:45
Panel 1
War and visuality 15:45-17:00
Chair: Eszter FÖLDI
Eszter BALÁZS (HUN): Destruction of historical monuments and churches during WWI in the Hungarian press
Iván BERTÉNYI (HUN): Nail Men in Hungary: a Strange Phenomenon of War Propaganda
Gizem TONGO (TUR): Displays of Alliance-Building: Exhibition of Ottoman War Paintings during the First World War
Discussion
DAY2
30.05.
Keynote speech by Paul STIRTON (USA) 9:30-10:30
The Processes of Modernity: Hungarian visual culture and the First World War
Coffee break 10:30-11:00
Panel 2
War and Art I. 11:00-12:30
Chair: Iván BERTÉNYI
Răzvan PÂRÂIANU (ROM): War, Art and Propaganda in Romania: The Birth of the “Romanian Art” Association in the Trenches of the First World War
Petr INGERLE (CZE): Czech art in the middle of the war and just after
Michał BURDZIŃSKI (POL): The Transient or the Incessant. Central European Painters with Writers Facing the Great Desolation
Discussion
Lunch break 12:30-14:00
Panel 3
War and Art II. (Sculpture) 14:00-15:15
Chair:Roland PERÉNYI
György SZÜCS (HUN): In crosshair of nations. The case of Ferenc Medgyessy’s sculpture in Galitsia
Zoltán SUBA (HUN): Myth of Remembrance. Typology of war monuments in Hungary
Zuzana BARTOŠOVÁ (SVK): Repatriates and nomads. Life stories and works of artists migrating from and to Slovakia between 1914 and 1918. Selected examples
Discussion
Coffee break 15:15-15:30
Panel 4
Propaganda and its institutions in WW1 15:30-16:45
Chair: Eszter BALÁZS
Tijana PALKOVLJEVIĆ BUGARSKI (SRB): Visual Culture in Serbia (1914-1920)
Gábor BALOGH (HUN): Propaganda technics in the First World War – The birth of hate propaganda
Ágnes TAMÁS (HUN): The Depiction of Enemy in the First World War. A Comparison of German, Austrian and Hungarian Caricatures
Discussion
Coffee break 16:45-17:00
Panel 5
The role of the avantgarde 17:00-18:15
Chair: András ZWICKL
Merse Pál SZEREDI (HUN): The New Art Versus the New State: Lajos Kassák and the ‘Activists’ during the 1919 Hungarian Communist Republic
Anna PRAVDOVÁ (CZE): Back to the realism: Czech artists during and after the First World War, the case of František Kupka and Otakar Kubín-Coubine
Eszter POLONYI M.(HUN-USA): Radical Optics: the Film-City of the 1919 Hungarian Commune
Discussion
DAY3
31.05.
Keynote speech by Katalin BAKOS and Enikő RÓKA (HUN) 9:30-10:30
Facts and Images. Twists and turns of the visual rhetoric
Coffee break 10:30-11:00
Panel 6
Visual culture of Soviet republics 11:00-12:15
Chair: Merse Pál SZEREDI
Boldizsár VÖRÖS (HUN): „The Sledgehammer Stroke”;. Caricatures in the Soviet Republic of Hungary
Anikó KATONA (HUN): Posters of the Hungarian Soviet Republic
Alexandra SANKOVA (RUS): Graphic agitation in the USSR, 1917-1920
Discussion
Lunch Break 12:15-13:00
Panel 7
A new era 13:00-14:30
Chair: Anikó KATONA
Bernhard DENSCHER (AUT): War posters and their influence on the visual culture of the political propaganda in the First Austrian Republic
Jürgen DÖRING(DEU): From Kaiser to Democracy in Twelve Weeks. How posters tell the story of the German November Revolution 1918/19
Mariusz KNOROWSKI (POL): Between patchwork and interlingua – posters from the Polish-Bolshevik war (1919-1920)
Roland PERÉNYI (HUN): “Competition” between Budapest and Vienna for international Aid after World War I
Discussion