Book review: Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex by Sophia Giovannitti
Author: Marina Vinnik This book explores art and life, work, and art of Sophia Giovannitti, whose website features a list of works is available: https://www.sophiagiovannitti.work/work In the book Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex, the author dives deep into what we call love, art, or work in...
Anni Albers’ Theorisation of Textiles: Interwoven Narratives of the 20th Century Art
Author: Marina Vinnik The life and work of Anni Albers (1899 – 1994), born Annelise Elsa Frieda Fleischmann, embodies many key narratives of the 20th century and provides truly fascinating research material. Born to a Jewish family in Berlin Charlottenburg, she found a productive artistic path and survived...
A discreet disagreement with the concept of motherhood
Author: Eda Tuulberg The following post[1] is a brief analysis of Estonian artist Silvi Liiva’s[2] 1977 etching Põld-Põlluke [Field, Little Field] which I saw during one studio visit. In many ways, this is an exceptional work in the context of the representation of motherhood in late Soviet Estonian...