Dr Emese Révész became habilitated at MOME in 2021 in the field of illustration. She is the head of the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Institute of Art History, Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE). As a lecturer, she teaches illustration theory and history at MOME.
Biography
She graduated in art history from the Faculty of Humanities at Eötvös Loránd University, and went on to defend her PhD dissertation there in 2008. Her field of expertise includes the history of printmaking and book illustration, with particular emphasis on the period after 1945 and contemporary trends, as well as the Hungarian early Hungarian modernist painting and the history of higher education in art. Highlighted independent books 2021 – Story, Myth, History (Mese, mítosz, história) 2020 – Save As: Book Illustration from Yesterday to Today (Mentés másként. Könyvillusztráció tegnapról mára) 2019 – The Doodle Revolution: Selected Writings about the Art of Drawing (Firkaforradalom. Válogatott írások a grafikáról) 2019 – The Garden of Art: The Art of Arnold Gross (A művészet kertje. Gross Arnold művészete) 2015 – Picture, Press, History: Illustrated Press in Hungary from 1850 to 1870 (Kép, sajtó, történelem. Illusztrált sajtó Magyarországon 1870–1870) 2014 – Adolf Fényes (Fényes Adolf) 2010 – István Csók (Csók István) 2005 – Hungarian Historicism (A magyar historizmus) Selected curatorial projects 2022 – Incarnations of Space: The History of the Old Kunsthalle. Hungarian University of Fine Arts 2021 – Story, Myth, History. Archaisation and Magical Realism in Hungarian Art in the 1960s-70s. Vaszary Gallery, Balatonfüred 2018 – Strictly Controlled Prints: Hungarian Reproductive Graphics Between 1945 and 1961. Miskolc Gallery 2017 – Printing - Leaving Traces. Dóra Maurer's Graphic Oeuvre. Barcsay Hall, Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest. 2016 – Child/Age/Image: Children in Hungarian Visual Arts. Budapest History Museum Before the Revolution. The History of the College of Fine Arts between 1945–1956. Hungarian University of Fine Arts 2011 – Idols and demons. István Csók Retrospective Exhibition (1865–1961). Csók István Gallery - City Gallery, Székesfehérvár
In addition to these, she has organised numerous Hungarian and international illustration exhibitions. She is also the co-organiser of the Budapest Illustration Festival.
