Géger Melinda: Képzőművészeti élet Somogyban 1945–1990, 1998

RESUME The volume titled „Fine Art in Somogy" is a contemporary fine art monograph of Somogy County, describing the continuous history of 45 years as a function of the change of art. The period from 1945-1990 was the time of the gradual development of the socialist system, then the decades of decline in Hungary during '70s-'80s, when artistic structure had gone through an essential change within the centralized socialist bounds. Just like in the whole country, new art organizations, a development of a newer kind of government art patronage, then from 1975 a gradual dissolution of these characterizes the process. The characteristics of the era require to group artistic events based on organization forms and to describe them in connection with those of the changes. So, besides the Art Organizations of Somogy, we can mention the Colonies of Artists (Nagyatád, Fonyód-Bélatelep, Bárdibükk) and the exhibitions of the county seat, Kaposvár and the most important country towns. The individual work of lives of artists of Fine- and Applied Arts of Somogy can be found in a separate chapter, and in certain essays we discuss the modifications of style and conception found in separate eras - generations in details. The volume discusses events - not necessarily realized with participants of Somogy like the International Wood Carver Creative Workshop of Nagyatád, the performances of Csiky Gergely Theatre and the Chapel exhibitions of Balatonboglár. These three artistic initiations of three different types (art workshop, creative work of the theatre, exhibition) had given opportunity and a home in Somogy for the refreshing movements of Hungarian Art. The Carver Workshop in Nagyatád illustrates the artistic changes in Hungarian Carving of the '70s through the conceptual sculpture work, the appearance of the environmentalinstallation innovation thoughts and the landart experiments. The activity of Csiky Gergely Theater by shaping the theatrical „revilution", thus bringing international success also could not have been born without Somogy. The exhibitions at the Chapel of Balatonboglár had become important parts of the exhibition events of the Hungarian Avantgarde. This artistic event had become a symbol of socialist coltural politics with the arbitrary closing by the authorities. The volume reconstructs the background history of the chapel exhibitions and the action mechanism of the cultural politics of the '70s with the help of unpublished documents. (Fordította: Márkusné Gulyás Mónika) 151