FOLK AESTHETICS - IDEAS AND EXPERIENCE MADE TANGIBLE (Rahvaesteetika - nahtavaks kujustatud mote ja kogemus)

• Authors: Summatavet Kart
• Languages of publication: ET

Abstracts

EN

The article raises a question as to how to implement the imagination of a researcher in the study of tangible cultural heritage, using the example of Kristjan Raud and Ants Laikmaa, artists who worked at the beginning of the 20th century, and their art theory related and pedagogical standpoints. The observation focuses on how the texts, written by these artists a hundred years ago, attempt to understand folk aesthetics, folk art practice, oral and tangible folklore, and identify these with the experience of creative process of professional art. The article highlights the viewpoints and opinions which affected the creative work of K. Raud, and were used by the artist to learn and study the mindset of the authors of tangible heritage. A closer look is taken at the specific problems encountered by the artist upon the interpretation of cultural heritage. Folk aesthetics comprises individual fantasy and creativity, expressed by way of oral and visual poetry, which is based on the creative process taking place as an outcome of the synthesis of the hierarchical stratifications of shared experience within the surrounding environment and the community. When attempting to treat folk aesthetics in the light of the professional knowledge and skills of an artist, we can investigate the creative process launched by individual fantasy and creativity, expressed by way of oral and visual poetry; as an outcome of such creative process, new ideas and artefacts with idiosyncratic details may be generated within the traditional community, upon the individual interpretation of shared knowledge and experience.

Keywords

EN

ESTONIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM; FIELDWORK; FOLK AESTHETICS; FOLK ART; FOLKLORE; HERITAGE TECHNOLOGIES; LAIKMAA ANTS; PROFESSIONAL ART; RAUD KRISTJAN

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Folk Belief and Media Group of the Estonian Literary Museum, Estonian Institute of Folklore, EKM Teaduskirjastus
• Journal: Mäetagused
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 44
• Pages: 7-28
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Summatavet Kart

• Kart Summatavet, Research and Creative Studies Department, University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy, Posti 1, 71004 Viljandi, Estonia

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10EAAAAA07309