ABSTRACT
Katalin Néray was the first Hungarian review of the “return to painting” tendency in American art of the 1980s: it was published in the official art magazine Muvészet , which had a broad readership. Its subject is the exhibition American Painting: The Eighties , which Néray had seen in Houston in 1979, and a similar exhibition at the National Gallery in Budapest in 1981. The expansion of the American feminist movement has not only enriched theoretical contributions to cultural theory, but has also helped to integrate a large group of talented women into the field of art. It is a cliche that some of the most high-profile artists of the avant-garde, from Marcel Duchamp to the Surrealists, Expressionists, and Constructivists, nurtured modern American art. Another cliché is that no authoritative insight into twentieth-century European art can be obtained without studying the holdings of American museums.
