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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
