Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Santa Barbara Museum of Art

Richard V. West

Krannert Art Museum

Steven A. Mansbach

With the publication of this stunningly illustrated account of the Hungarian avant-garde movement, an important missing link in early modern art can now be fully recognized. To such well-known names in the west as LAizslA³ Moholy-Nagy and Andor Weininger can now be added the contributions of Lajos KassAik, SAindor Bortnyik, BAla Uitz, and a host of other painters whose significance has long been obscured. The nearly 200 illustrations, many in full color, together with essays by leading American and Hungarian scholars and a comprehensive bibliography and comparative chronology, make this a definitive sourcebook that opens a new chapter in twentieth-century art. During the early twentieth century, central and eastern Europe provided fertile ground for major artistic developments. Hungarian painters, in particular, responded imaginatively and vigorously 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. Only in the past few years has it been possible once again to examine original works of art and to assess properly these painters' vital contribution. Steven A. Mansbach is Dean and Director of the American Academy for the Humanitites at the Central European Institute in Berlin. The Essays: The Avant-Garde: Marching in the Van of Progress, Richard V. West. Introduction, S. A. Mansbach. Hungary: A Brief Political and Cultural History, IstvAin DeAik Revolutionary Engagements: The Hungarian Avant-Garde, S. A. Mansbach. Color, Light, Form, and Structure: New Experiments in Hungarian Painting, 1890-1930, JAlia SzabA³, Hungarian Activism and the Russian Avant-Garde, John E. Bowlt. The Avant Garde in Hungary and Eastern Europe, Krisztina Passuth. Chronology, and bibliography, Oliver A. I. Botar.

Painters of the Hungarian Avant-garde, 1908-1930

Standing in the Tempest

Rockwell Kent

Constance Martin

Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge

his admiration for the heroic virtues of their inhabitants, and the mystical strain in his nature, his sense of wonder before the elemental and infinite. These early Monhegan paintings, with their uncompromising clarity, their concentration on the stark forms of the island, and their romantic delight in great expanses of sea, cold northern sky, and brilliant light, were among his most moving works."--Lloyd Goodrich "[We see] Kent's fascination with the wild and remote places of the earth, his admiration for the heroic virtues of their inhabitants, and the mystical strain in his nature, his sense of wonder before the elemental and infinite. These early Monhegan paintings, with their uncompromising clarity, their concentration on the stark forms of the island, and their romantic delight in great expanses of sea, cold northern sky, and brilliant light, were among his most moving works."--Lloyd Goodrich

The Odyssey of Rockwell Kent

Distant Shores

Robert C. Harvey

Brian Walker

Frye Art Museum

Traces the evolution of the American comic strip since the creation of the Yellow Kid in 1895 through an examination of over 130 original examples of comic strip art from major public and private collections.

The Evolution of the American Comic Strip

Children of the Yellow Kid

Richard V. West

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