From the Avant-Garde to the Humanitarian: Kati Horna's Photomontages and Photography (1937-1938)

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dc.contributor.advisorCheng, Joyce
dc.contributor.authorCleary, Elizabeth
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-09T22:41:11Z
dc.date.available2024-01-09T22:41:11Z
dc.date.issued2024-01-09
dc.description.abstractThe Mexican-Hungarian photographer Kati Horna (1912–2000) photographed the Spanish Civil War and created photomontages for the anarchist organization, the CNT-FAI (Confederación Nacional del Trabajo-Federación Anarquista Ibérica/National Labor Confederation-Iberian Anarchist Federation) between 1937 and 1938. Scholarship to date has debated whether Horna’s political activism or her association with interwar avant-garde groups played a greater role in her work. In this thesis, I suggest that Horna’s political activism and her associations with Dada, Constructivism and Surrealism are inseparable aspects of her work by tracing Horna’s work from Hungarian Activism in the mid-1910s to what has been described as humanitarian photography in the 1930s. I argue that Horna’s work reveals the proximity of the avant-garde groups on the one hand and, on the other, the ambiguous relationship between art and politics during the European interwar years.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/29138
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.
dc.subjectavant-gardeen_US
dc.subjecthumanitarianen_US
dc.subjectKati Hornaen_US
dc.subjectphotographyen_US
dc.subjectphotomontageen_US
dc.subjectSpanish Civil Waren_US
dc.titleFrom the Avant-Garde to the Humanitarian: Kati Horna's Photomontages and Photography (1937-1938)
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineDepartment of the History of Art and Architecture
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.A.

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