Research Catalog

Title

Jüri Okas / toimetajad: Sirje Helme, Jüri Okas ; tekstide autorid: Sirje Helme, Andres Kurg ; tõlkija: Krista Mits.

Author

Okas, Jüri, 1950-

Publication

• Tallinn : Kumu, 2017.
• ©2017

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kurg, Andres
• Helme, Sirje
• Mits, Krista
• Kumu kunstimuuseum (Tallinn, Estonia), host institution, publsher.

Description

279 pages : color illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

Jüri Okas is seen as iconic both in architecture ? as a member of the Tallinn School and the founder of the architecture bureau J. Okas & M. Lõoke ? and in fine art. Okas?s artistic activity had its beginnings in the 1970s and he has produced work in a wide range of media: happenings, land art, film, photography, and prints from photographs and films. By distancing himself from the officially approved Soviet ideology and being in a complex dialogue with the Western avant-garde, Okas became one of the most fascinating contemporary artists in Estonia. His keen sense of observation and conceptual treatment of space have never ceased to intrigue researchers and critics of different generations.00Two complementary studies are included in the book. Dr. Sirje Helme, a contemporary of Jüri Okas and a long-time interpreter of his work, looks at the considerable gap between young art of the 1970s and the language used by critics to interpret it, claiming that this did not help to prepare the ground for conceptual art, and that Jüri Okas stood quite alone. Dr Andres Kurg, in his article, analyses the in-betweenness of Okas?s visual art, which is expressed by the recurrent motifs of buildings falling into disrepair or being under construction, of walls descending or ascending.00The artist and architect Jüri Okas has contributed a great deal to the exhibition and the book, and the conceptual clarity and refined aesthetics of his work will definitely dictate the form and ways of its reception.00Exhibition: Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia (07.04.?27.08.2017).0.

Uniform Title

Works. Selections

Alternative Title

Works.

Subjects

• Okas, Jüri, 1950-
• Exhibition catalogs
• Okas, Juri, 1950- > Expositions
• Okas, Jüri, 1950- > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Catalogue of an exhibition held at Kumu Art Museum, 7 April through 27 August 2017.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Estonian and English.

Call Number

JQE 18-214

ISBN

• 9789949485673
• 9949485673

OCLC

1007547348

Author

Okas, Jüri, 1950- artist, editor.

Title

Jüri Okas / toimetajad: Sirje Helme, Jüri Okas ; tekstide autorid: Sirje Helme, Andres Kurg ; tõlkija: Krista Mits.

Publisher

Tallinn : Kumu, 2017.

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Language

Estonian and English.

Added Author

Kurg, Andres, author.

Helme, Sirje, author, editor.

Mits, Krista, translator.

Kumu kunstimuuseum (Tallinn, Estonia), host institution, publsher.

Research Call Number

JQE 18-214