Male Artists’ Self-Image as Winners in the 1990s Estonian Media (Summary)
Male Artists’ Self-Image as Winners in the 1990s Estonian Media

Summary/Abstract: This article analyses the image of male artists in the discourse of Estonian media, and how the media representations of the artist changed from the Soviet era until the mid-1990s. The object of the analysis is the material published in Estonian papers and magazines between 1986 and 1996 about Raoul Kurvitz (b. 1961) and Mark Kostabi (b. 1961). Relying on various theoreticians of visual culture (Griselda Pollock, Hal Foster, Clement Greenberg and Leena-Maija Rossi), the author examines the values connected with the myth of the male artist in the Estonian art landscape that dominated in media texts and pictures.

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