Who Writes the History of Art?
(…) What is certain is the need to re-evaluate the entire legacy of our recent past, and we could do no better than start with the forgotten, neglected, suppressed, distorted and disrupted cultures of Central and East Europe. (Henry Meyric Hughes. London, October 1999. http://www.aspectspositions.org/essays/hughes.html) “Hungarian works representing different tendencies of the period are not digested, evaluated, archived, popularised — and therefore the general consciousness of art is incomplete and distorted.” (Tamás St.Auby) Tamás St.Auby, agent of NETRAF (Neo-Socialist Realist International Parallel Union of Telecommunication´s Global Counter-Art History-Falsifiers Front), presented a collection under the title Portable Intelligence Increase Museum – Pop art, Conceptual art and Actionism in Hungary in the 1960s (1956-1976) in Dorottya Gallery, Budapest, in 2003. The continuously expanding multimedia archive is made up of a walk-through wooden construction and contains about 70 multi
