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Moștenirea lui Baász Imre este dovada gândirii progresiste și a cooperației dinamice în lumea artistică, în timpul opresiunii politico-culturale. În anii ’80, gândirea și ideile progresiste s-au îndepărtat de capitala București, care până atunci funcționa ca un centru perpetuu. Acest model centru–periferie inversat a oferit mai multă libertate prin posibilitatea anonimității. Un exemplu important pentru grupurile maghiare susținând gândirea progresistă artistică în epoca respectivă este Grupul MaMű din Târgu-Mureș,  care a încurajat tinerii artiști să experimenteze noile metode occidentale, precum și concept art, mail art, action art și limbajul stilistic abstract, în general. Baász Imre nu a fost membru oficial al Grupului MaMű, dar a promovat aceleași idei, având țeluri comune. Opera lui, așadar, poate fi considerată ca o prelungire a activității Grupului MaMű.

The bequest of Hungarian folklorist and folk dance researcher György Martin is currently held at the Hungarian Heritage House. The collection offers interesting insights into the private practices of alternative culture during the Kádár era in Hungary. It contains many documents, including letters, documents about the folk dance house movement, and documents about research trips. György Martin’s correspondence in particular reflects the trajectories of a non-conformist intellectual agenda.

The bequest of János Maróthy, which is held at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Music Institute, offers insights into the heritage of a music aesthete and music researcher who was an essential figure of Hungarian music studies under socialism. The collection shows that the official infrastructure often generated spaces for critical, unofficial cultures. The Institute supported Maróthy in his efforts to collect the folk music, protest songs, and pol-beat trends, genres which helped young people criticize and rebel against official socialism.

This ad-hoc collection consists of the work of Binka Zhelyazkova, an emblematic Bulgarian cinema director, as it is preserved in the Bulgarian National Film Archive, plus related materials. Zhelyazkova was among the first generation of professional Bulgarian cinematographers and one of the first female directors not only in Bulgaria, but in general. The collections informs not only about the work of this notable director but gives also insight into the development of Bulgarian cinema throughout the entire period of state socialism.