COURAGE

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Since the Bizottság-exhibition (“Sírba visztek” – A Bizottság a Műcsarnokba megy, Műcsarnok, September 3– 13 November 2011), Artpool has lent materials on several occasions for shows on the underground cultural context.
In recent years, international projects presented a selection of music posters from the Artpool collection. An important occasion was the Rock/Tér/Idő [Rock/Space/Time] exhibition at the Museum Ludwig Budapest in 2015.

Tamás Csapody’s book entitled Theory and Practice. Catholic Conscience Objectors in Hungary between 1979 and 1989, was finished in 1993 but was published only in 2016. This volume includes the documents and analyses of his research, which was done using questionnaires. Csapody collected data on people who refused to do compulsory military service. This study was done between 1988 and 1991, and he repeated it in 2005. The 100 questions on the questionnaire concerned the details and processes related to the objectors’ behaviour and ideas.

The book provides easy access to the archival materials preserved in Alojzij Šuštar Collection, which are otherwise accessible only to a limited degree. It documents the struggle of Archbishop Šuštar to force the communist government to grant basic freedoms to Catholics, such as the right not to work on Christmas. It follows his activities in the process of Slovenia becoming an independent state. Therefore, the book is an unavoidable source for studying more recent Slovenian history.

The book Tartust Pariisi ja tagasi. Rännakutest, kunstist ja möödanikust (From Tartu to Paris and back. About journeys, art, and the past) consists of writings and poems by Indrek Hirv. Reproductions of works of art in his collection are also published in the book. It is even more important that the lives and fates of Hirv and his parents, as well as the lives of his parents’ friends, who were all artists, are described in this book. The book gives an insight into the views and spirit of a circle of artists who in one way or another opposed Soviet authority.