Teadmisjanu ja dialoogivajadus: Eesti NSV kunstiajaloolased kirjutavad Sten Karlingile
The Hunger for Knowledge and the Need for Dialogue: Art Historians of the Estonian SSR Writing to Sten Karling

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the correspondence between three acclaimed and distinguished art historians from the Estonian SSR and University of Stockholm professor Sten Karling from the late 1950s to 1987. Karling was a colleague of Voldemar Vaga and taught Helmi Üprus and Villem Raam at the University of Tartu in pre-war Estonia. The correspondence (consisting of more than 300 letters) is in the care of the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. The article focuses on the art historians who lived in the Estonian SSR, above all the main directions of their study of art history. As such, the letters are reflections of art history’s discursive attitudes and methodological mindset.

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