Modern and Contemporary Hungarian Art [antikvár]

Suzanne Mészöly THE SOROS FOUNDATION FINE ART DOCUMENTATION CENTER 8 LJ The institution is a resource center for modern and contemporary Hungarian art. The Center is funded by the Soros Foundation, New York and is located in the Műcsarnok - Palace of Exhibitions, Budapest. COMPREHENSIVE DOCUMENTATION of modern and contemporary Hungarian artists are prepared by commissioned art historians. Approximately five to ten artists are documented each year. The documentations include comprehensive accounts of the selected artists' work, complete with biographical details, lists of group and individual exhibitions, lists of works in public collections, bibliographies, copies of relevant published articles, catalogues and brief accounts of the artist's activities. Approximately 20 to 40 chronologically ordered representative works are selected from each artist's oeuvre; one page is devoted to the description of a single work and is accompanied by a black and white reproduction and a color slide. The documentation offers easily readable, comprehensive accounts of an artist's work. The documentation, available in both English and Hungarian, is updated biennially. Annotated versions of the documentation are lodged in the Library of the National Gallery of Art, Wasington. THE ARTISTS FILE is a comprehensive, computerized slide registry of contemporary Hungarian artists. The Center maintains an alphabetically organized slide file and documentation provided by the artists themselves, including up to twenty slides of current work, current addresses of artists, biographies, lists of exhibitions, catalogues, photographs, published articles, etc. The artists select two slides from those in their respective files which