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Kodres, Krista: Toward a new concept of progressive art: Art history in the service of modernisation in the late socialist period: an Estonian case
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Toward a New Concept of Progressive Art: Art History in the Service 221
tornateci but, in parallel, values were re-interpreted based on a society that was
headed toward modernisation, and was starting to look beyond its borders.48
This change revealed the growing ambivalence of Soviet culture, and thus,
forces us to abandon, or at least to attach a new angle to the long established
dichotomous model for viewing the entire Soviet era in terms of an official
culture and its opposite, a culture of resistance. As I have hopefully succeeded
in demonstrating, art history writing in the Estonian SSR was deeply engaged
with the ambivalent aims of Late Socialist Soviet politics, politics that was
feared and despised but that, beginning in the late 1950s, had nevertheless
shown the desire to move on and change. In the Primer, the litmus test of the
engagement with change was the new narrative of 20th-century art history and
the illustrative material that depicted "formalist bourgeois" artworks.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bernstein B., "Seoses vaidlustega realismi üle" [Regarding the disputes over realism,
1-2], Kunst 1966, 3, pp. 13-22, and 1961, 1, pp. 1-14
Bernstein M., Vanakaev. Mälestusteraamat [Old Well. Book of Mémoires], Tartu 2009
Dmitreva M., "The Riddle of Modernism in the Art Historical Discourse of the Thaw;"
in: A Socialist Realist History? Writing Art History in the Post-War Decades, eds.
K. Kodres, K. Jôekalda, M. Marek, Köln, Weimar, Wien 2019, pp. 143-169
Esna O., "Kuidas puhastati Eesti raamatukogusid" [How the Estonian libraries were
expurgated], Pärnu Postimees 2014, 27th February
Hütt W, Wir und die Kunst. Eine Einführung in die Kunstbetrachtung und Kunst-
geschichte, Berlin 1959
Kangilaski J., "Vaidlustest marksistlikus esteetikas" [Disputes in Marxist aesthetics],
Looming 1965, 11, pp. 1707-1718
Kangilaski J., "Realismi meiste metamorfoosid nôukogude kunstiteoorias" [Metamor-
phoses of the notion of realism in Soviet art theory], Kunstiteaduslikke Uurimusi/
Studies on Art and Architecture 2003, 12(1-2), pp. 11-24
Kangilaski Q, J. Kangilaski, Kunsti kukeaabits. Algteadmisi kunstist ja kunstiajaloost
[A Basic Art Primer. Fundamental Knowledge of Art and Art History], Tallinn 1967
KaraH M. C., AeKn,nn no MapKcuc'icKO-/ieiinncKon ocreTiiKe, nacTb II [M. S. Kagan,
Lekciipo marksistsko-leninskoy estetikie, II], Leningrad 1964
Kodres K., "Scientific Baroque - for Everyone. Constructing and Conveying an Art Ep-
och during the Stalinist Period in the Soviet Union and in Soviet Estonia," in: Ba-
roque for a Wide Public: Popular Media and Their Constructions of the Epoch on
Both Sides of the Iron Curtain, eds. M. Marek, E. Pluharovà-Grigienéené, Journal
of Art Historiography Special Issue 2016, 15 [https ://arthistoriography wordpress.
com/15-decl6/], pp. 1-25
48 A. Yurchak, "Soviet Hegemony of Form: Everything was Forever, Until It Was No
More," Comparative Studies in Society and History 2003, 45(3), pp. 480-481.
tornateci but, in parallel, values were re-interpreted based on a society that was
headed toward modernisation, and was starting to look beyond its borders.48
This change revealed the growing ambivalence of Soviet culture, and thus,
forces us to abandon, or at least to attach a new angle to the long established
dichotomous model for viewing the entire Soviet era in terms of an official
culture and its opposite, a culture of resistance. As I have hopefully succeeded
in demonstrating, art history writing in the Estonian SSR was deeply engaged
with the ambivalent aims of Late Socialist Soviet politics, politics that was
feared and despised but that, beginning in the late 1950s, had nevertheless
shown the desire to move on and change. In the Primer, the litmus test of the
engagement with change was the new narrative of 20th-century art history and
the illustrative material that depicted "formalist bourgeois" artworks.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bernstein B., "Seoses vaidlustega realismi üle" [Regarding the disputes over realism,
1-2], Kunst 1966, 3, pp. 13-22, and 1961, 1, pp. 1-14
Bernstein M., Vanakaev. Mälestusteraamat [Old Well. Book of Mémoires], Tartu 2009
Dmitreva M., "The Riddle of Modernism in the Art Historical Discourse of the Thaw;"
in: A Socialist Realist History? Writing Art History in the Post-War Decades, eds.
K. Kodres, K. Jôekalda, M. Marek, Köln, Weimar, Wien 2019, pp. 143-169
Esna O., "Kuidas puhastati Eesti raamatukogusid" [How the Estonian libraries were
expurgated], Pärnu Postimees 2014, 27th February
Hütt W, Wir und die Kunst. Eine Einführung in die Kunstbetrachtung und Kunst-
geschichte, Berlin 1959
Kangilaski J., "Vaidlustest marksistlikus esteetikas" [Disputes in Marxist aesthetics],
Looming 1965, 11, pp. 1707-1718
Kangilaski J., "Realismi meiste metamorfoosid nôukogude kunstiteoorias" [Metamor-
phoses of the notion of realism in Soviet art theory], Kunstiteaduslikke Uurimusi/
Studies on Art and Architecture 2003, 12(1-2), pp. 11-24
Kangilaski Q, J. Kangilaski, Kunsti kukeaabits. Algteadmisi kunstist ja kunstiajaloost
[A Basic Art Primer. Fundamental Knowledge of Art and Art History], Tallinn 1967
KaraH M. C., AeKn,nn no MapKcuc'icKO-/ieiinncKon ocreTiiKe, nacTb II [M. S. Kagan,
Lekciipo marksistsko-leninskoy estetikie, II], Leningrad 1964
Kodres K., "Scientific Baroque - for Everyone. Constructing and Conveying an Art Ep-
och during the Stalinist Period in the Soviet Union and in Soviet Estonia," in: Ba-
roque for a Wide Public: Popular Media and Their Constructions of the Epoch on
Both Sides of the Iron Curtain, eds. M. Marek, E. Pluharovà-Grigienéené, Journal
of Art Historiography Special Issue 2016, 15 [https ://arthistoriography wordpress.
com/15-decl6/], pp. 1-25
48 A. Yurchak, "Soviet Hegemony of Form: Everything was Forever, Until It Was No
More," Comparative Studies in Society and History 2003, 45(3), pp. 480-481.