The Language of Art Criticism and the Re/Production of Social Difference: The discourse of 'feminine' and national art in the reception of the women a Cover Image
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Kunstikriitika keel ja sotsiaalse erinevuse taas/tootmine: "naiseliku" ja rahvusliku kunsti diskursustest 1939. aasta naiskunstnike näituse retseptsio
The Language of Art Criticism and the Re/Production of Social Difference: The discourse of 'feminine' and national art in the reception of the women a

Author(s): Katrin Kivimaa
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts
Published by: Eesti Kunstiteadlaste Ühing
Keywords: Modernist art; National identity; Gender Studies; Estonian art; Baltic Art; art criticism;

Summary/Abstract: This article focuses on the critical reception to the exhibition of women artists that took place in the Tallinn Art Hall in October 1939, and attempts to demonstrate how various models of differentiation, reflecting and reproducing widespread ideologies of the period, existed within the allegedly universal modernist critique. The exhibition's reception in 1939 also reflects the significance of national rhetoric and ideology in the Estonian culture of the 1930s, and in the social processes of constructing and maintaining gender ideology.

  • Issue Year: 14/2005
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 34-50
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Estonian