Eesti popanimatsioon 1973–1979: joonisfilmist lähikunstiajaloo kontekstis
Estonian Pop Animation 1973–1979: Hand-Drawn Animation in the Context of Recent Art History

Summary/Abstract: This treatment is focused on selected animated films made from 1973 to 1979 in the division of animated cartoons of the studio Tallinnfilm. During the 1970s in the Estonian SSR, a number of artists who were influenced, among other things, by Pop art (and also by The Yellow Submarine cartoon from 1968), such as Aili Vint, Leonhard Lapin, Sirje Lapin (Runge), Ando Keskküla, Rein Tammik and Priit Pärn, were actively engaged in the process of making hand-drawn animated films. Although these artistic figures need no introduction in the cultural sphere of today’s Estonia, their oeuvre in the field of animation has been left out of the value systems of local post-war art history. However, it is clear that quite a few animations from the 1970s rightly belong in the museal framework of Soviet Estonian Pop, or ‘Soviet Pop’ as this localized version of Pop art is often referred to.

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