From the clearest springs
Subtitle: tradition and abstraction in the art of Dezső Korniss (1908-1984)
By: editor of the catalogue, Marianna Kolozsváry ; authors of the essays, Imre Bak [and 10 others] ; list of works, Marianna Kolozsváry
Contributors: Magyar Nemzeti Galéria
Series: Publications of the Hungarian National Gallery -- 2018/6; Magyar Nemzeti Galéria kiadványai -- 2018/6.
Publisher: Dr. László Baán, Museum of Fine Arts - Hungarian National Gallery
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Budapest
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9786155304927
Subjects: Exhibitions; Catalogues raisonnés
Description: Dezső Korniss was the first Hungarian artist to treat the motifs he retrieved from that "clear spring" of folk art not as decorations or accessories, but as independent artworks in their own right, replete with meaning. In Korniss's works, folk motifs are not included in the pictures, but are themselves transfigured into pictures. The metamorphoses he enacted are as magical as the transformation of the hunter's sons into stags in the Hungarian folk ballad.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, December 19, 2018 - April 7, 2019.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-333).
Table of contents: title: The art of Korniss, the clearest of springs / Dr László Baán; title: Dezső Korniss and the concept of continuity in art / Loránd Hegyi; title: Dezső Korniss and the metamorphosis of folk art / Keserü Katalin; title: Between the lions: the ambivalent relationship of Dezső Korniss  and Endre Bálint / Marianna Kolozsváry; title: The pursuit of folk art motifs and forms / Zsuzsanna Tasnádi; title: Dezső Korniss and Béla Bartók / János Mácsai; title: Joie de vivre after the battle. The cricket's wedding / Gábor Bellák; title: The public artworks of Dezső Korniss / Zsolt Petrányi; title: Tradition and modernity / Imre Bak; title: A pupil about his master / Tibor Csiky; title: Notes on Dezső Korniss / Ilona Keserü Ilona; title: He meant something different to me than a teacher / István Nádler; title: Works; title: Biography; title: List of works; title: Appendix.