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Style and Meaning: Disciplinary Conversions in Estonian Art History (EKA Research Grant, 2021–2022)

The purpose of the project is to concentrate on the critical concepts in Estonian art history, their role in the vocabulary and meaning making within the field over the course of the two last centuries. Our focus is on the concept of style that ...

30 December 2020

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Ingrid Ruudi “Spaces of the Interregnum. Transformations in Estonian Architecture and Art, 1986–1994” (Dissertationes 31)

Ingrid Ruudi, PhD student of the Estonian Academy of Arts, curriculum of Art History and Visual Culture, defended her thesis Spaces of the Interregnum. Transformations in Estonian Architecture and Art, 1986–1994 („Ruumiline ...

17 December 2020

Doctoral School Institute of Art History and Visual Culture

Kristina Jõekalda “German Monuments in the Baltic Heimat? A Historiography of Heritage in the “Long Nineteenth Century”” (Dissertationes 30)

Kristina Jõekalda defended her thesis "German Monuments in the Baltic Heimat? A Historiography of Heritage in the "Long Nineteenth Century"" in the curriculum of Art History and Visual Culture on the ...

12 November 2020

Doctoral School Institute of Art History and Visual Culture

David Vseviov named professor emeritus

On May 19th, the Senate of the Estonian Academy of Arts named professor David ...

20 May 2020

Institute of Art History and Visual Culture

The Institute of Art History and Visual Culture offers more online content during the emergency

The Institute of Art History and Visual Culture updated their website in order to offer more online content and thus keep contributing to public discourse on art, architecture and design while the Institute’s usual activities aimed at the ...

11 May 2020

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Forecast and Fantasy in Late Soviet Architecture (PSG, 2020–2024)

The research project proposes to write a history of fantasy in Late-Soviet architecture, focusing on its mediating role in the transformative effects of postwar modernisation. From the 1960s onwards several architects realigned their work ...

31 March 2020

Institute of Art History and Visual Culture Ongoing Research Projects

Patterns of Development in Estonian Culture of the Transition Period (1986–1998) (PRG, 2020–2024)

The research project sets out to investigate the cultural processes at work in Estonia between 1986 and 1998, a time-frame known as the transition period, corresponding to the disintegration of socialist systems in Eastern Europe and subsequent ...

30 March 2020

Institute of Art History and Visual Culture Ongoing Research Projects

Publishing the ‘History of Estonian Art’ (1999–2025)

Publishing the multi-volume History of Estonian Art was initiated in 1999. It is the longest-running research project of the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture. The Estonian-language volumes are accompanied by lengthy English ...

29 March 2020

Institute of Art History and Visual Culture Ongoing Research Projects

Image or Sign: A Phenomenological Study of Pictorial Representation (MOBJD, 2017–2020)

The aim of Regina-Nino Mion’s project is to defend the originality of Edmund Husserl’s phenomenological account of pictorial ...

20 March 2020

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Readdressing Practices and Theories of Experimentation in the 20th- and 21st-Century Estonian Visual and Spatial Culture

The main aim of this project is to analyze experiment in Estonian visual and spatial culture, and to investigate its role in official economic and ...

10 March 2020

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