Tomáš Štrauss Anthology Challenges East-West Art Divide
In 2020, AICA Press released an anthology titled 'Tomáš Štrauss: Beyond the Great Divide,' featuring seven essays by notable Slovak art critic Tomáš Štrauss, who lived from 1931 to 2013. Edited by Daniel Grúň, Henry Meyric Hughes, and Jean-Marc Poinsot, the book marks the inaugural translation of Štrauss's thoughts from Slovak and German into English. A prominent figure in Central European art, Štrauss, originally from Budapest, had significant ties to Košice and Bratislava. The anthology covers varied topics, including critiques of the 1981 'Westkunst' exhibit for ignoring Eastern European avant-gardes, and is part of AICA's 'Art Critics of the World' series.
Key facts
- Anthology 'Tomáš Štrauss: Beyond the Great Divide' published by AICA Press in 2020.
- Contains seven essays by Slovak critic Tomáš Štrauss (1931–2013).
- Edited by Daniel Grúň, Henry Meyric Hughes, and Jean-Marc Poinsot.
- Štrauss was born in Budapest, lived in Košice and Bratislava, emigrated to West Germany after 1968, and returned after the Velvet Revolution.
- He was a curator at the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg.
- The anthology includes essays on Béla Bartók, Lajos Kassák, Košice modernism, and Slovak action art.
- Štrauss criticized the 1981 'Westkunst' exhibition for excluding Eastern European art.
- The book is the third in AICA's 'Art Critics of the World' series.
Entities
Artists
- Tomáš Štrauss
- Béla Bartók
- Lajos Kassák
- Konštantín Kövári-Kačmarik
- Eugen Krón
- Konštantín Bauer
- František Foltýn
- Anton Jasusch
- Alex Mlynárčik
- Július Koller
- Peter Bartoš
- Vladimír Popovič
- Jozef Jankovič
- Stano Filko
- Miloš Laky
- Ján Zavarský
- Marinetti
- Malevitch
- Mondrian
- Duchamp
- Moholy-Nagy
- Leoš Janáček
- Eugen Suchoň
- Milan Kundera
- Radislav Matuštík
- Klaus Ruhrberg
- Kasper König
- Lászlo Glozer
Institutions
- AICA Press
- AICA (International Association of Art Critics)
- Comenius University
- Institute of Aesthetics
- Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum
- De Appel gallery
- Museum Ludwig
- Skulptur Projekte Münster
- Dom umenia Brno
- Young Artists' Gallery Bratislava
- Fiatal Müvészek Klubja
- ARTMargins Online
Locations
- Budapest
- Hungary
- Košice
- Slovakia
- Bratislava
- Czechoslovakia
- West Germany
- Duisburg
- Germany
- Cologne
- Amsterdam
- Netherlands
- Prague
- Czech Republic
- Brno
- Paris
- France
- Central Europe
- Eastern Europe
- Western Europe
- United States
- Lüneburg