Iván Hevesy (; 7 December 1893 29 January 1966) was a Hungarian literature, photography and

film theorist Film theory is a set of scholarly approaches within the academic discipline of film or cinema studies that began in the 1920s by questioning the formal essential attributes of motion pictures; and that now provides conceptual frameworks for unde ...

. Hevesy is best known for his pioneering role in the history of the Hungarian

avant-garde The avant-garde (; In 'advance guard' or ' vanguard', literally 'fore-guard') is a person or work that is experimental, radical, or unorthodox with respect to art, culture, or society.John Picchione, The New Avant-garde in Italy: Theoretical ...

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1893 births Hungarian art critics 1966 deaths Hungarian film critics {{Hungary-bio-stub