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Aaand... the final monograph from our project is now out!

Persistent Illusions: Visual Culture and Historical Memory in Interwar Hungary by Nóra Veszprémi has been published by Cornell University Press.

New book: Persistent Illusions: Visual Culture and Historical Memory in Interwar Hungary A new book by Nóra Veszprémi, Persistent Illusions: Visual Culture and Historical Memory in Interwar Hungary, has been published by Cornell University Press. It is the fourth and last monograph res…

New book from our project!
Visions of the Future: Modern Architecture, Catholicism, and the State in Central Europe, 1918–1939 by Matthew Rampley is out now with Penn State University Press.

New book: Visions of the Future: Modern Architecture, Catholicism, and the State in Central Europe, 1918–1939 Matthew Rampley’s new book Visions of the Future: Modern Architecture, Catholicism, and the State in Central Europe, 1918–1939 has been published by Penn State University Press. Some of the m…

New monograph from our project! Marta Filipová's book Czechoslovakia at the World’s Fairs: Behind the Façade has been published by CEU Press.
Read it here - it is open access.

Czechoslovakia at the World’s Fairs Born in 1918, the First Czechoslovak Republic was keen to project a distinct image of the new state in others. Participation in World Fairs offered the perfect opportunity to make such an effort, which Czechoslovakia did not hesitate to seize. The comprehensive picture of Czechoslovak efforts at the...

New book from the CRAACE project! Congratulations to Julia Secklehner, whose monograph Rethinking Modern Austrian Art Beyond the Metropolis has just been published by Routledge.

New book: Rethinking Modern Austrian Art Beyond the Metropolis • CRAACE Julia Secklehner's new book, Rethinking Modern Austrian Art Beyond the Metropolis, has just been published by Routledge.

New article by Christian Drobe in the journal Austrian Studies! The article compares travel writing on Japan in the 1920s by two women from the former Habsburg Empire: Alma Karlin and Alice Schalek.

New Article by Christian Drobe on Travel Writing by Central European Women An article by Christian Drobe, 'Alma Karlin and Alice Schalek Look East: Travel Writing by Central European Women in the Interwar Period,' has been published in Austrian Studies.

New CRAACE publication! Nóra Veszprémi's article 'Sites of Memory and Forgetting: Gyula Derkovits’s Woodcuts of the 1514 Peasant War' examines an artwork created in the midst of the interwar Hungarian Communist movement in the late 1920s. It argues that the series of woodcuts reflected ongoing, vicious debates within the Hungarian Communist Party, centred around how the Party employed nationalism and irredentism in its agitative activities.

New article by Nóra Veszprémi in the Oxford Art Journal • CRAACE 'Sites of Memory and Forgetting: Gyula Derkovits's Woodcuts of the 1514 Peasant War' by Nóra Veszprémi has been published in the Oxford Art Journal.

The new issue of our open access journal Art East Central has been published! It contains five articles on exhibitions of central and eastern European art and design, four of them based on papers from our 2022 CRAACE workshop on exhibitions. The essays are followed by reviews of a wide variety of new books on central and eastern European art.

The 2023 issue of Art East Central is now out • CRAACE The new issue of the open access journal Art East Central features articles on exhibitions of central European art and design.

In December our Artwork of the Month is the Bílá labuť (White Swan) department store in Prague, designed by Josef Kittrich and Josef Hrubý. Matthew Rampley discusses the building as an example of a new type of building shaped by the relationship between modernist architecture and the consumer economy.

The Bílá Labuť Department Store, Prague by Josef Kittrich and Josef Hrubý (1939) The Bílá labuť (White Swan) department store on Na Pořící Street in Prague is celebrated as a significant example of interwar modernist architecture in Czechoslovakia.

In November our Artwork of the Month is a film that was never made, and yet continues to inspire today's filmmakers. Nóra Veszprémi explores how Dynamic of the Metropolis by László Moholy-Nagy works as an autonomous picture poem, expressing the artist's fascination with, as well as concerns about, modernity and its effects on human life.

Dynamic of the Metropolis by László Moholy-Nagy (1921–22/1924/1925) Dynamic of the Metropolis by László Moholy-Nagy is a picture-poem, a photomontage, an imaginary film, and an artistic essay on the modern condition.

Our Artwork of the Month in October is The ABC of Women by Lisl Weil, the 'wonder child' of Viennese magazine illustration. Julia Secklehner explores how Weil provided a humorous panorama of Austrian society through these stereotypical, but never malicious images.

Artwork of the Month: The ABC of Women by Lisl Weil (1933) Austrian caricaturist Lisl Weil forged an imagery whose ostensible playfulness betrays acute insight into modern Austrian society.

In September 1923, our Artwork of the Month is a design for a single-family house known as the Red Cube by the Hungarian modernist architect Farkas Molnár. Starting from this design, Christian Drobe explores the role of the human figure in Farkas's art.

Artwork of the Month, September 2023: The Red Cube by Farkas Molnár (1923) Starting from Red Cube, a design by Hungarian architect Farkas Molnár, the article discusses the depiction of human figures in Bauhaus design

In August 2023 our Artwork of the Month is an innovative example of modern lacework. Marta Filipová examines how the Czechoslovak designer Emilie Paličková Milde (1892–1973) experimented with this technique as a form of artistic expression.

Artwork of the Month, August 2023: Bobbin Lace by Emilie Paličková Milde (1939) Emilie Paličková Milde (1892–1973) is a key example of a modernist designer who experimented with lace as a form of artistic expression.