Oliver A I Botar
Oliver A. I. Botar is Associate Director (Graduate Studies and Research) and Professor of Art History at the School of Art, University of Manitoba in Canada. His Ph.D. dissertation (University of Toronto) was entitled “Prolegomena to the Study of Biomorphic Modernism: Biocentrism, László Moholy-Nagy's ‘New Vision’ and Ernő Kállai's Bioromantik.” In it, he related Biocentric ideologies to central European Modernism, particularly as it relates to the Bauhaus, and this set the course of much of his subsequent career. He is the author of Technical Detours: The Early Moholy-Nagy Reconsidered (2006, in Hungarian, 2007) and Sensing the Future: Moholy-Nagy, Media and the Arts (also in a German edition, Sensing the Future: Moholy-Nagy, die Medien und die Künste, 2014). The associated exhibitions, which he curated, were shown in New York, Rutgers, Budapest, Pécs, Winnipeg and Berlin (Bauhaus-Archiv, Museum für Gestaltung). He is co-editor of Biocentrism and Modernism (with Isabel Wünsche, 2011), telehor (with Klemens Gruber, 2013) and Cannibalizing the Canon: Dada Techniques in East-Central Europe (with Irina Denischenko, Gábor Dobó and Merse Pál Szeredi, 2024). He has published numerous articles, and has lectured widely in North American, Europe and Japan. He has also worked on Canadian art, publishing A Bauhäusler in Canada: Andor Weininger in the 50s (2009), An Art at the Mercy of Light: Works by Eli Bornstein (2013), and several articles and chapters.
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The History of Hungarian Art in the Twentieth Century (1999) by Gabor Andrasi, Gabor Pataki, Gyorgy Szucs, and Andras Zwickl;
The Architecture of Historic Hungary (1998), edited by Dora Wiebenson and Jozsef Sisa;
Shaping the Great City: Modern Architecture in Central Europe 1890-1937 (1999), exhibition catalogue edited by Eve Blau and Monika Platzer
The History of Hungarian Art in the Twentieth Century (1999) by Gabor Andrasi, Gabor Pataki, Gyorgy Szucs, and Andras Zwickl;
The Architecture of Historic Hungary (1998), edited by Dora Wiebenson and Jozsef Sisa;
Shaping the Great City: Modern Architecture in Central Europe 1890-1937 (1999), exhibition catalogue edited by Eve Blau and Monika Platzer
The Architecture of Historic Hungary by Dora Wiebenson and József Sisa, eds., (Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England, 1998); and Shaping the Great City: Modern Architecture in Central Europe 1890-1937 by Eve Blau, and Monika Platzer, eds. (Munich, London and New York: Prestel Verlag, 1999).
This rich, in-depth exploration of Dada’s roots in East-Central Europe is a vital addition to existing research on Dada and the avant-garde. Through deeply researched case studies and employing novel theoretical approaches, the volume rewrites the history of Dada as a story of cultural and political hybridity, border-crossings, transitions, and transgressions, across political, class and gender lines.
Broadcasted online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgBVmcpIbOg
Date: March 28, 2024 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm (EST)
Location: Columbia University, New York City