DECADES

 

NOUGHTIES.
PROBLEMS, THEMES AND MEANINGS IN ESTONIAN ART ON 2000S

© Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia, 201... (work in progress)

A collection of articles dedicated to the various processes that took place in the art scene of Estonia during the first decade of the 21st century.

 

 

LOST EIGHTIES.
PROBLEMS, THEMES AND MEANINGS IN ESTONIAN ART ON 1980S

ISBN 978-9985-9778-2-8
© Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia, 2010
Compiler Sirje Helme
Editor Andreas Trossek
Additional editor Johannes Saar
Designer Andres Tali

The compilation is in Estonian and English, length 464 pages. This collection of essays is based on a presentation day “Lost Eighties” held at Rotermann Salt Storage on Dec 9, 2003, which dealt with different aspects of the Estonian artworld of the 1980s. In its own peculiar ‘backward’ way the book is also a sequel to a collection of articles entitled “Nosy Nineties”.

Table of contents:
Sirje Helme. Why the eighties? Why lost?
Ants Juske. Soviet postmodernism
Johannes Saar. Competing landscapes: changing cultural horizons and contexts in the art writing of the 1980s
Heie Treier. Sublime and kitsch
Eero Epner. A pretty girl in a pleasure garden, seducing her admirers
Kädi Talvoja. Tartu slide painting: grotesque – game or tactics?
Anu Allas. A hero out of place: the figure of Kalevipoeg in Estonian painting of the 1980s
Vappu Thurlow. Riding the lion into the future
Jüri Hain. The ‘golden eighties’ of poster art
Juta Kivimäe. Lagoon sculpture: critical pop, romantic symbolism, hyperrealism and surrealism in the Estonian sculpture of the 1980s
Inge Teder. Applied art in the eighties
Krista Kodres. We can, but we can’t: Estonian interior design in the 1980s
Raoul Kurvitz. Flame-throwing: Estonian performance in the eighties
Peeter Laurits. Estonian photography in the eighties
Tuuli Lepik. The birth of Estonian computer art
Chronology

 

 

NOSY NINETIES. PROBLEMS, THEMES AND MEANINGS IN ESTONIAN ART ON 1990s

Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia 2001
ISBN 9985-9321-0-2
Collegium’s members Sirje Helme, Jaak Kangilaski, Virve Sarapik
Editors Sirje Helme, Johannes Saar
Layout Andres Tali 

Articles:
Ants Juske. The Myths and Realities of Post-Communist Art
Iivi Masso. Freedom Euphoria or Post-Communist Hangover?
Sirje Helme. Soros Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia in the Extreme Decimal
Berk Vaher. On the Possibility of Subculturein Estonia
Airi-Alina Allaste. Club Culture in Estonia
Eha Komissarov. On the Estonian Painting of the 1990s
Johannes Saar. Velvet Circle
Katrin Kivimaa. Introducing Sexual Difference into Estonian Art: Feminist Tendencies during the 1990s
Raivo Kelomees. The Material and the Technological in the Art of the 1990s
Anders Härm. Shamanism and Meditation: Nature Poetry in the Estonian Video Art of the 1990s
Andres Härm. Reflections of Media Space in Estonian Video Art
Peeter Linnap. Estonian Realist Art in the 1990s
Mari Sobolev. Art of the “Invisibles” – Voluntarily out of Focus
Heie Treier. In Search of an Identity
Hanno Soans. Applied Situationisim in new Estonian Art
Mari Laanemets. Photography in the Estonian Art of the 1990s
Triin Ojari. On the Threshold of a New Age: the 1990s in Estonian Architecture
Virve Sarapik. Estonian Art of the 1990s and the Postsemiotic Turn
Karin Laansoo. Word, text and Language: Developments in Estonian Art in 1990s
Johannes Saar. A Shitty Story 

A collection of articles based on an international conference “Art and Society in 1990s” that took place on January 19 – 20, 2001 at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Presented together with double CD-ROM “Video and Action Art in Estonia”.