Published Books

The Estonian Academy of Arts Press is a subdivision of the Estonian Academy of Arts, which publishes both translated as well as original texts about art history and culture, design, architecture and fine arts.

The publications of the Estonian Academy of Arts are listed below in order of publication, i.e. the list starts with the most recently published book. See the books on sale HERE. Books are on sale in the EKA library Mon-Fri 10-18, Sat 11-15.

All questions regarding retail and wholesale can be addressed to the EKA publisher.

Neeme Lopp
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James P. Carse “Lõplikud ja lõpmatud mängud: nägemus elust mängu ja võimalusena”

In Estonian translation to “Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility,” Carse begins with two seemingly simple definitions: finite games are those that are played to win; infinite games are those that are played to keep ...

4 August 2025

“Leida lugemik: viisteist valitud artiklit”

The Estonian edition of the Leida Reader compiles articles from the online journal Leida, established by the Faculty of Design at the Estonian Academy of Arts and published between 2022–2024. Leida brings together different approaches ...

3 June 2025

“Leida Reader: Fifteen Selected Articles”

The Leida Reader compiles articles from the online journal Leida, established by the Faculty of Design at the Estonian Academy of Arts and published between 2022–2024. Leida brings together different approaches by designers, artists and ...

3 June 2025

Hilkka Hiiop, Kaisa Milsaar, Anneli Randla, Hannes Vinnal “Venuse triumf / The Triumph of Venus”

At the beginning of 2023, a sensational find was unearthed from the Baroque wing of the Knights' Guild building on Toompea Hill – a figural ceiling painting on canvas. There are only a few of these left in Estonia. The ceiling painting, ...

30 March 2025

Risto Paju “Tallinna hiliskeskaegne raidkivikunst. Fragmendid – ajalugu ja tõlgitsemine” (Dissertationes 47)

There are works of art and architecture that attract attention with their exceptionally well-preserved integrity, but there are also many that have survived only in fragments. This is also the case with the older carved stone artworks in this ...

22 January 2025

Hasso Krull “Kosmiline trikster eesti mütoloogias” (Dissertationes 46)

An Estonian mythology, does it really exist? Yes, but only on one condition: it exists, if the Estonian landscape equally exists. Cosmic trickster is the creator of the Estonian landscape. Therefore, the Estonian landscape is a mythical ...

1 January 2025

Donna J. Haraway “Raskustes püsimine: hõimuloome ktulutseenis”

In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She eschews referring to our current epoch as the ...

29 November 2024

Eve Koha “Klaasimaal – valgusega maalimine”

Eve Koha's book presents an overview of the history of glass painting and its methods. Glass painting methods and materials have undergone great development over time. Eve Koha's book is primarily intended as educational material, but it is also ...

4 November 2024

Ulvi Haagensen “In the In-Between: Explorations into the Line Between Art and Everyday Life as Seen Through the Eyes of a Practising Visual Artist” (Dissertationes 45)

Sprung from an avant-garde heritage, contemporary art often meets, overlaps and collides with ordinary everyday life, sometimes intentionally, sometimes not. For an artist working in this field, the relationship between art and life can be ...

4 November 2024

“Riides ja alasti: 110 aastat figuuriõpet Eesti Kunstiakadeemias”

Portraying a person, drawing, painting, and modeling according to a living model has been a part of art education throughout the ages, and the Estonian Academy of Arts and its predecessors are no exception here. The catalog prepared for the ...

11 October 2024

Nick Dunn “Hämarad teed. Öise linna manifest” (Library of Ehituskunst #4)

The Estonian translation of Nick Dunn's "Dark Matters" explores the nighttime city as a time-space where you can escape from the confines of the daytime. The night city represents a special way of being. Nightwalking has often been integral to ...

4 September 2024

Nesli Hazal Oktay “Far-away bodies: Co-creating design(s) in and for remote intimacy” (Dissertationes 44)

Intimacy is an embodied experience rooted in everyday life activities including bodily interactions. For some, intimacy is experienced and built across distances when intimate partners find themselves physically apart for various periods. In ...

1 September 2024

Gregor Taul „Monumentality Trouble: Monumental-Decorative Art in Late Soviet Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania“ (Dissertationes 43)

This doctoral thesis examines the theme of public space art in late-Soviet Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. From its early days, the Soviet Union considered monumental art to be an important part both in its ideological agitation and in ...

1 July 2024

Nina Stener Jørgensen “Participation as Data? Architecture and Cybernetics in Europe around 1968” (Dissertationes 42)

This doctoral thesis analyzes the ways in which user participation was understood as data in three architectural projects from the late 1960s and early 1970s. These projects borrowed concepts from the theory of cybernetics, and in all of them ...

17 June 2024

“Eesti linnaehituse ajalugu 1918–2020”

This substantial and richly illustrated book provides an overview of the last hundred years of Estonian urban planning. At that time, cities became the main residences of the population living here, and rapid urbanization made it necessary to ...

22 April 2024

Mariann Raisma „Muuseumi võim. Muuseum kollektiivse mälu kujundajana Eestis 20. sajandi murranguperioodidel“ (Dissertationes 41)

Museums have shaped societies' understanding of the past in many ways over the past two centuries. The museum guides the way we think about history, determines the balance points of forgetting and remembering, and shapes the hierarchy of values ...

8 December 2023

Arife Dila Demir „Extended (Textile) Soma: Somaesthetics of Bodily Discomforts“ (Dissertationes 40)

Human existence in the world is corporeal; we live and exist in the world through our moving and perceiving bodies – our somas. Our somas continuously perceive internal and external stimuli that shape our perception of our environment and ...

8 December 2023

Britta Benno “Mõtlemine kihtides, kujutlemine kihtides. Posthumanistlikud maastikud laiendatud joonistus- ja graafikaväljal” (Dissertationes 39)

Britta Benno's artistic research based doctoral thesis “Mõtlemine kihtides, kujutlemine kihtides. Posthumanistlikud maastikud laiendatud joonistus- ja graafikaväljal” (“Thinking in Layers, Worlding in Layers: Posthuman Landscapes in Expanded ...

7 December 2023