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List of Fonds: MKI-C-I-209



  • MKI-C-I-209

  • Title
    Material gifted by art historian Olivér Botár
  • Quantity / Provenance / Document types, inclusive dates
    Uninventoried, 3 folders / Gift / Typescript of a doctoral dissertation, exhibition invitations, offprint, study, reviews, exhibition catalogues, photos, slides, 1998–2006
  • Description
    Olivér Árpád István Botár is a Canadian art historian of Hungarian descent. Born in Toronto in 1957, he is currently a professor at the University of Manitoba School of Art (Winnipeg, Canada). His area of research is 20th-century Central European Modernism.
    The fonds contains a section of Botár’s works – his writings on László Moholy-Nagy, mostly, as well as invitations for and catalogues of exhibitions he organised in Hungary and in America. A great number of photos are also included in the fonds, mostly on the topics of avant-garde art between the two World Wars in Hungary and abroad, and Dadaism in Hungary.
  • Description by
    Andrea Rózsavölgyi, Csongor Fehér, Benjámin Ék