Kultuuriruum ja Natalie Mei prostitutsiooniteemalised joonistused. – The Space of Culture and the Theme of Prostitution in Natalie Mei's Drawings. - UTU Research Portal

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Kultuuriruum ja Natalie Mei prostitutsiooniteemalised joonistused. – The Space of Culture and the Theme of Prostitution in Natalie Mei's Drawings.

Authors: Kai Stahl

Publisher: Eesti Kunstiteadlaste Ühing Estonian Society of Art Historians

Publishing place: Tallinn

Publication year: 2011

Journal: Kunstiteaduslikke Uurimusi

Number in series: 1-2

Volume: 20

Issue: 1-2

First page : 135

Last page: 158

Number of pages: 4

ISSN: 1406-2860

eISSN: 1406-2880

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Abstract

Natalie Mei (1900–1975) was the only woman in the Estonian art field who dealt with and displayed the theme of prostitution in her oeuvre in the 1920s. Through feminist reading and applying Juri Lotman’s theorisations concerning the negotiation of borders between cultural and ‘non-cultural’ spheres, this article examines the ways in which Mei, in a few drawings, deviated from and challenged the dominance of the traditional patriarchal canon of the prostitution image.