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How do women artists in Russia, Estonia and Latvia view themselves in the
post-Soviet era? What is their relationship to feminism and how has that
relationship changed following the fall of the Soviet regime? Having conducted
over 60 interviews between 1995 and 1998, Renee and Matthew Baigell explore in
this volume these women's difficulties of pursuing an art career in a
male-dominated society, and the attitudes of their male counterparts toward
feminist concerns. The artists interviewed - some born as early as the 1920s, others as
recently as the 1970s - discuss their private lives and situations, as well as
specific works of art. They reveal a wide range of attitudes and a complex
relationship with a feminist movement often regarded as an alien import from
the West. Gender issues in art school, parental attitudes toward the prospect
of their daughters becoming artists, the demands and strains of career and
family life, and questions regarding a female approach to imagery are among the
topics raised, as are these artists' hopes and dreams for the future. This book
also includes a brief chronology of pertinent art exhibitions during the
1990s. A study of women artists in Russia, Estonia and Latvia in the post-Soviet
era. Based on over 60 interviews conducted between 1995 and 1998, it explores
the difficulties of women pursuing an art career in a male-dominated society,
and the attitudes of their male counterparts to feminist concerns.
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