Research Catalog

Title

Kurja lillede lapsed : eesti Ddekadentlik kunst = Children of the flowers of evil : Estonian decadent art / edited by Mirjam Hinrikus, Lola Anabel Kass, Liis Pählapuu ; texts by Jirjam Hinrikus, Lola Annabel Kass.

Publication

Tallinn : Kumu Art Museum, 2017.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hinrikus, Mirjam
• Kass, Lola Annabel
• Pählapuu, Liis
• Kumu kunstimuuseum (Tallinn, Estonia)

Description

238 pages : color illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

This project is an intriguing study of the searches of creatively active people at the beginning of the 20th century, and their reactions to the changing and modernising world. Comparative links between literature and fine arts have been established, and the critical and blasé artists and writers of European metropolises and the first generation of Estonian intelligentsia have been juxtaposed. Charles Baudelaire?s authoritative poems serve as the background against which the attitudes and approaches of a number of Estonian writers and artists, including Friedebert Tuglas, August Gailit, Johannes Semper, Erik Obermann, Eduard Wiiralt, Konrad Mägi and Nikolai Triik, to the fashionable word of the time, "decadence", become evident. Light is also shed on the more melancholy, sexual, (self- )destructive and sickly aspects of their creative work. The aim of this exhibition and book, however, is not to retell the story of the life and work of a few artists, but rather to provide a more general analysis of the decadent spirit of early-20th-century art and literary circles. Thus, the choice of materials for this exhibition is, in fact, a broad visual-cultural study embracing a noteworthy number of Estonian artists and involving a large number of works from the cross-over area between art and literature: prints, book illustrations and book plates. A number of works that ended up being reproduced in this book have never been discussed in Estonian art history before, and this is the first time they are presented to the general public. Exhibition: Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia (09.09.2017?25.02.2018).

Alternative Title

• Children of the flowers of evil : Estonian decadent art.
• Estonian decadent art.

Subject

• Art, Estonian > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Decadence in art > Exhibitions
• Decadence in literature > Exhibitions
• Art and literature > Estonia > Exhibitions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Text in English and Estonian.

Exhibitions (note)

• Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Kumu Art Museum from 9 September 2017 to 25 February 2018.

Call Number

JQF 18-563

ISBN

• 9789949485680
• 9949485681

OCLC

1030377909

Title

Kurja lillede lapsed : eesti Ddekadentlik kunst = Children of the flowers of evil : Estonian decadent art / edited by Mirjam Hinrikus, Lola Anabel Kass, Liis Pählapuu ; texts by Jirjam Hinrikus, Lola Annabel Kass.

Publisher

Tallinn : Kumu Art Museum, 2017.

Type of Content

still image

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Language

Text in English and Estonian.

Exhibitions

Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Kumu Art Museum from 9 September 2017 to 25 February 2018.

Added Author

Hinrikus, Mirjam, editor, author.

Kass, Lola Annabel, editor, author.

Pählapuu, Liis, editor.

Kumu kunstimuuseum (Tallinn, Estonia)

Research Call Number

JQF 18-563