Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei (Budapest, 2008)
ANNUAL REPORT • A 2008. ÉV - Summary of the Scientific Lecture Series Held at the Museum of Fine Arts in 2008
Zoltán Horváth and Máté Petrik: Archaeological research at the Egyptian site of El-La hun: perspectives, 16 April The museum's first concession for an archaeological expedition in Egypt is aimed at the multidisciplinary exploration of the site dominated by the royal burial ground established by Pharaoh Sesostris IL El-Lahun, a highly important site of archaeological research into the Middle Kingdom, which was excavated only in part a long time ago, thus a number of questions (in regard to settlement archaeology, chronology, iconography, etc.) are waiting to be answered. However, this could only be achieved if excavations are conducted on the site. The objectives set by the research project include the thorough exploration of the history of the early, insufficiently documented excavations. Márton Orosz: Colour and movement: Animated adverts as an abstract experiment. The connections of a new genre with the avantgárd, 21 May The lecture focussed on those artists who played a pioneering role in introducing colour animation films in the first half of the 1930s, bringing about a turning point in the history of media. It presented the possible applications of critical iconology —which serves as a new interpréta tional model for classic art history —in the analysis of optical media. It cited the example of Sándor László (Alexander Laszlo) to illustrate the results of the colour-sound congresses organised at the University of Hamburg by Georg Anschütz in the genre of visual music, and highlighted the impact of "Gasparcolor" —the colour technology used by the abstract avantgarde filmmakers and named after its inventor, Béla Gáspár, a chemist —on the novel visuality of ads at the time. The importance of Prague-based Desider Gross (Dezső Grósz), the father of the European network of colour ads using avantgárdé tools was also discussed in light of the newly conducted research. Szilveszter Terdik: "As ifit was blessed, the soil brings ample fruit, and science and the arts are flourishing. " Establishing the Greek-Catholic Episcopal See in Ungvár in the era of Maria Theresa, 14 June In 1775 Maria Theresa moved the Greek-Catholic episcopal See from Munkács to Ungvár. The former Jesuit church was converted into a cathedral, the monastery into an episcopal ISO
