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Estonian art from the National Awakening to the Brezhnev stagnation
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Canwell
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Jeremy
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1974-
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Jeremy Canwell
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Jane A.
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Zervigon
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Andres Mario
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Andres Mario Zervigon
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internal member
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Yanni
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Carla
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Carla Yanni
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Botar
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Oliver
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Oliver Botar
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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2012
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During the Estonian National Awakening, the nineteenth-century period of cultural self-awareness, artists in this eastern European country, subsequently a republic of the USSR, creatively adapted stylistic models originating elsewhere in Europe. After World War II, artists turned to the United States for inspiration. This interpretive modernism, which was suppressed under Stalinism, remained integral to Estonian national identity, and resurged in the late-1950s reformist period known as the “thaw.” In the ensuing cultural renaissance of the 1960s, artists recovered the pre-war modernist past while reopening lifelines to contemporary art abroad. Until cultural retrenchment in the 1970s, artists used unofficial exhibitions to provoke audiences comprising cultural officials, the scientific and creative intelligentsia, and the general public. This artistic activity must be analyzed in the context of its heritage: a national movement begun in the nineteenth century, and at whose height artists like Paul Raud and Nikolai Triik equated Estonian self-realization with cultural modernity sustained by adaptive processes. Nonetheless, histories of Estonian art appearing after independence in 1991 have scuttled this salient quality in favor of Western modernist paradigms, a cornerstone of which is originality. This dissertation examines pre-war Estonian art, the totalitarian forms that supplanted those aesthetic modes, and the return of Estonian modernism at unofficial exhibitions staged by Leonhard Lapin, Raul Meel, and other artists in the final decades of Soviet rule. Concepts drawn from Jüri Lotman’s semiotic theory of culture support the proposed, alternative history of Estonian art, as well as critical reassessment of Cold-War modernist theory that has obscured that history.
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Art History
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Art, Estonian--19th century
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Art, Estonian--20th century
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xiii, 357 p. : ill.
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Ph.D.
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Includes bibliographical references
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by Jeremy Canwell
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ETD doctoral
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Canwell
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Jeremy
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2011-10-03 20:01:23
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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2014-01-30
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Access to this PDF has been restricted at the author's request. It will be publicly available after January 30th, 2014.
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