Naisekuju nõukogude ja eesti identiteedi kandjana sotsrealistliku maalikunsti ja graafika näitel
Images of Women as the Signifiers of the Soviet and National Identity in Estonian Socialist Realist Painting and Graphic Art

Summary/Abstract: This article will look at changes in post-Second-World-war Estonian painting and graphic art, effected by the introduction of the socialist realist canon. Predominantly, it poses questions about representational transformations designed to construct the new identity of the Soviet Estonian woman, using the examples of the images of working women and of the ethnographic image of the nation-as-a-woman. The discussion of those images will concentrate on how different representations of femininity were utilised for the purposes of official visual propaganda, first of all. At the same time, one has to pay attention to how certain images of women continued to perpetuate – although to a lesser extent – old gender ideologies which in Estonian context could be also read as pro-national and anti-Soviet.

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