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Mazányi Judit: Vázlat egy korszakról belső határokkal (Az 1920-as és 1930-as évek)

Judit MazAnyi

SKETCH OF A PERIOD WITH INNER BORDERS The 1920's and 1930's Years (Summary)

After the shock of the Trianon Peace Treaty (1920) in a country that had lost its earlier identity (together with considerable territory), the political and intellectual elite faced a rather difficult situation to solve. The leaders of the country saw the way out of the crisis in creating a Christian national state, and among others liberal, leftist ideas were considered as causes for the offence. Ideology had an impact on the arts as well. Artists of the avantgarde movement having many in common with liberalism and leftist ideas, playing a role in the revolutionary political changes (1919) were stigmatized and pushed to the periphery of the art scene. Many of them left the country and lived in emigration never returning home. Those coming back to Hungary from the mid-twenties were sobered down. Earlier radical artistic changes in the turn of the 19th and 20th century did not leave enough time to absorb the result of the development, new ways of expression were understood only by a thin layer of the elite. For the representatives of official art scene avantgarde remained an incomprehensible thing, not just ruining values, getting away form conventions, resulting inexplicable works built on individual artistic freedom, experimentation, but also basis for political revolt.

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