“Creating the self. Emancipating woman in Estonian and Finnish Art”

This book accompanies the largest ever overview exhibition of women artists’ oeuvre in Estonia, “Creating the Self: Emancipating Woman in Estonian and Finnish Art”, in the Kumu Art Museum (06.12.2019–26.04.2020). It was part of the “Art Museum of Estonia 100” anniversary programme.

The collaborative exhibition project of the Kumu Art Museum and the Ateneum Art Museum compared Estonian and Finnish art from the mid-19th century to the 1950s. Since the second half of the 20th century, women artists, who used to be forced into the background in art historical treatments, have increasingly been brought into the spotlight all over the world. The book offers insights into the social and intellectual environments in which women artists worked, with a focus on their education, travel opportunities, social views, creative interests and social positions throughout the various eras in the covered period. The exhibition also unearthed works of art by several lesser known Estonian artists.

Among others, works by Julie Hagen Schwarz, Sally von Kügelgen, Karin Luts, Natalie Mei, Lydia Mei, Aino Bach, Olga Terri, Maria Wiik, Helene Schjerfbeck, Sigrid Schauman, Elga Sesemann, Ellen Thesleff, Tove Jansson and Tuulikki Pietilä were on display.
This book is in English. The book is based on the main and sub-themes of the exhibition.

To make it more accessible, the book follows a clearer chronology than the exhibition, where, due to the limits of the space, the timelines were sometimes bent, some themes were connected to each other and others crossed several rooms. From each subsection, some of the most characteristic, interesting and intriguing works are highlighted, and their contents and backgrounds are explained in more detail. As there are seven authors, the texts are varied, making the whole more fragmented, but also showing the multiplicity of viewpoints and ways of approaching Soviet art.
Compiled by and introductory essays written by Anu Allas.

Publisher: Estonian Art Museum
Year of beauty: 2020
Compilers: Tiina Abel, Anu Allas
Illustrator: Tuuli Aule
Format: paperback
Language: English
Dimensions: 22.1 x 25.9 cm
Pages: 248
ISBN: 9789949687091

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