Publisher's Synopsis
This is an illustrated account of the Hungarian avant-garde movement. To such well-known names in the west as Lazslo Moholy-Nagy and Andor Weininger can now be added the contributions of Lajos Kassak, Sandor Bortnyik, Bela Uitz, and a host of other painters whose significance has long been obscured. The nearly 200 illustrations, many in full colour, together with essays by leading American and Hungarian scholars and a bibliography and comparative chronology, aim to make this a definitive sourcebook.;During the early 20th century, central and eastern Europe provided fertile ground for major artistic developments. Hungarian painters, in particular, responded to the political and social changes leading up to and following World War I by "standing in the tempest" of political activism and attempting to redefine the role of art in society.;Now it is once again to examine original works of art and to assess properly these painters' vital contribution.
