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EVA Visual Arts in Europe: An Open History

Artwork

Composition with a Torso and Child's Hands

Anu Põder (Kanepi, 1947 – Tallinn, 2013)

1986

Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia

Buste mannequin rose sans tête

Details

Creator(s)
  • Anu Põder (Kanepi, 1947 – Tallinn, 2013)
Title(s)
  • Composition with a Torso and Child's Hands
  • Kompositsioon torso ja lapse kätega
Date of creation
1986
Materials and techniques
Wood, plastic, textile and epoxy resin
Place of conservation
  • Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia
External links
Rights
  • Author’s rights
  • ADAGP
Subject(s)
protest, colorful, depicted, intellectual culture, movable, abstract, nude, anthropomorphic

Linked article

Anu Põder belongs to the history of Estonian art as one of the most original and controversial sculptors of the 1980s. While many of her contemporaries depicted social themes in the Soviet Union — agriculture, collective farm work, socialist living spaces — or created portraits of the Soviet elite and cast them in accessible bronze, Põder focused on the intimate side of the human soul and inner monologue, experimenting with mixed materials that were considered unusual in official sculpture.

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