Barbara Joan #Jakobson, née Petchesky

R.I.P., Barbara J. #Jakobson [°Jan. 31, 1933 – Aug. 25, 2025]🕯️😔🌹

#MoMA #MuseumofModernArt #LeoCastelli #VladimirKagan #FrankGehry #DavidSalle #RobertMapplethorpe #FrankStella #DianeArbus #RobertRauschenberg #AliceTisch #JeffreyDeitch #GlennLowry #RoseParnes #BarbaraJoanPetchesky #BarbaraJakobson

View of perhaps the most elegant Belle-Époque style house in Koidula, Tallinn.

Front gateway, flanked by pillars, to the Belle-Époque style house in Koidula, Tallinn.

Close-up of the turquoise painted ironwork of the front gateway to the Belle-Époque style house in Koidula, Tallinn.

View of perhaps the most elegant Belle-Époque style house in Koidula, Tallinn, hiding the glaringly out-of-place basketball trappings in the middle.

given her by #Jakobson. Koidula articulated emotions that Estonians had bottled up for centuries, and her work retains its potency to this day. Throughout the #SovietOccupation, while singing the national anthem of #IndependentEstonia was forbidden, song festivals great and small ended,
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View along Jakobsoni, Tallinn, from the Kunderi direction.

Modern apartment building in Jakobsoni, Tallinn.

Old, three-storey building in Jakobsoni, Tallinn.

View through arch over apartment complex in Jakobsoni, Tallinn.

“the sRobespierre of the #Baltic”) and when #Jakobson published his own newspaper in 1878, #Sakala, a ‘War of Pens’ ensued. Jakobson’s funeral triggered a great demonstration of national feeling, despite dreadful weather and poor roads, more than 3500 people came to mourn their lost leader.
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In Jakobson’s model, communication isn’t just sending & receiving—it’s encoding & decoding. The addresser crafts the message 🎨, the addressee interprets it 🧠. Meaning depends on shared codes & context! 🔄📢 #Semiotics #CommunicationTheory #Jakobson