Statue of a Liberated Woman

Statue of a Liberated Woman
Native name
Azerbaijani: Azad qadın
Location Public Square, Baku
Built 30 April 1960
Architect M. Huseynov
Sculptor Fuad Abdurahmanov

The Statue of a Liberated Woman (Azerbaijani: Azad qadın) is a monument created by Fuad Abdurahmanov in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Background

After Red Army invasion of Azerbaijan, antiveil campaign supported by communist government began among the people of Muslim background in Azerbaijan. Many women discarded their veils in the city theater after seeing the Jafar Jabbarly play called Sevil, written in 1928.[1][2]

Construction

The monument was created by Fuad Abdurahmanov in 1956. It depicts a woman who decides to remove her veil. It was introduced at the Jubilee exhibition in 1957 and the four meter high bronze sculpture was officially installed on 30 April 1960. In this work the sculptor continued the theme, to which turned in his youth when he created a statuette of "Sevil" in 1937.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Bodman, Herbert (co-editor) (1998). Women in Muslim Societies: Diversity within Unity. Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder, CO. ISBN 1555875785. p. 146.
  2. ↑ Heyat, Farideh (2002). Azeri Women in Transition: Women in Soviet and Post-Soviet Azerbaijan. Oxon, UK: Routledge. p. 100. ISBN 1136871705.
  3. ↑ Памятник «Освобожденная азербайджанка» — олицетворение эпохального для современной истории страны события

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