Fejezetek a Képzőművészeti Alap történetéből: a Tavaszi Tárlat és a „három T” a dokumentumok tükrében

Abstract

Artists’ recollections of the Kadarist period of Hungarian socialism as well as the analyses of the cultural policy of the one-party state include as a permanent motif the “three T’s” for the initial letter of the Hungarian words for banning, toleration and support (tiltas, tűres, tamogatas) designed in theory for works and in practice applied partly to works and partly to artists. The reminiscing artists and the analysts are more or less at one declaring that “three T’s” were “created” by Gyorgy Aczel to describe the working of the art policy he dictated between 1957 and 1985. The matter is however far more complicated. First, the control of art policy was only partly in Aczel’s hand at the beginning of the period, and at that time there was no trace of the “three T’s”, but at most two were experienced: banning and support. Secondly, Aczel’s art policy was not solely his: the demarcation of his scope always fundamentally depended on the actual high political circumstances and on the party leaders who tri...