Neputns publishes a book about photographer Eižens Finks
The book “Eižens Finks. Photographer legend” has been published!
It shows the pictures available and kindly provided by Latvian museums and private collectors, which tell about both Fink's own family and the very diverse audience that has visited Fink's photo salon. It is a binding mirror of the very different strata and types of society of its time. We also meet well-known figures in society - musicians, singers, fellow photographers, public figures, military personnel - knights of the Lāčplēsis War Order, as well as the poet Mirdza Ķempe, the Latvian radio announcer at the time, the poet Igor Severjaņin who at that time lived in Estonia and yet a teenager composer Tālivaldis Ķeniņš.
Author Pēteris Korsaks
Literary editor Cilda Redliha
Design: Anna Aizsilniece
Image processing: Raivis Salmiņš
The book is available here: Eižens Finks. Photographer legend
Neputns publishes a book about the painter Otīlija Leščinska
The author of the book, Silvija Freinberga, says: “I would like to offer for publication a semi-documentary narrative about one of the first Latvian artists, currently little known - Otīlija Leščinskas, who once participated in the 1905 revolution and was one of the pioneers of modernist art in Latvian painting. The course of Otīlija Leščinskas' life is part of the rather difficult years of Latvian public life (1884–1923), which is also reflected in the text, and it is accompanied by tragic lifelong love (1905 fighter Kristaps Salniņš) and unexplained death in the Finnish river. There are also other personalities of his time, letters and memories of his contemporaries.”
Artist Zane Ernštreite
The publication of the book is supported by the State Cultural Capital Fund
The book is available here: Silvija Freinberga "Tija. Art, Revolution, Love"
Neputns publishes essays by exiled cultural worker Andrejs Johansons
In the series of essays outstanding writers, thinkers, essayists have beem published since 2013, and finally Latvian essayist, cultural historian and scientist Andrejs Johansons (1922–1983) has accompanied Lorca, Benjamin, Nietzsche, Undusk, Malaparte and other thinkers. Johanson's selection of essays selected by his son Paul Johanson marks the author's 100th anniversary. The edition includes essays written between 1953 and 1962 and published in five essay books: Smoky Lights, Horseshoe Down, Leopard Skin, and Wind Knots. One is published by the publishing house grāmatu draugs in the USA and the others by the Daugava publishing house in Stockholm. After the restoration of Latvia's independence, the publishing house was moved to Riga, where most of the essays were reprinted.
Series artist Anna Aizsilniece
Compiled by Paul Johansson
Editor Raimonds Ķirķis
The book is supported by the State Cultural Capital Fund
Monograph about Voldemārs Zeltiņš
In December, Kristiāna Ābele's monograph about the painter Voldemārs Zeltiņš is also expected to be released at the Neputns publishing house.
Kristiāna Ābele: "After everything that has been revealed about Zeltiņš's life and seen in his works, there are grounds for more agreement with Bēm's and Biete's views. In the painter's controversial struggle with life, tension of concentration of creative forces that was devoted to the art, whose embodiments in the emotional rhythms on canvas, cardboard or paper are not the prevailing mood."
Design and layout: Armands Zelčs.
The publication of the monograph is supported by the State Cultural Capital Fund
Czesław Miłosz in the velvet poetry series
In December, the publishing house Neputns is expected to publish a collection of poems by Czesław Miłosz in the velvet poetry series.
Ingmāra Balode: "Weight of poet's words in the eyes of the public are also given by external decorations, awards, which the author of this book is not lacking especially in the second half of his life; as you know, fame tends to bring creative slack or fatigue, but not to this poet. In 1980, Czesław Miłosz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his work, in which the vulnerability of man in a world of irreconcilable conflict is revealed through uncompromising ambition"."
Editor of the collection - Jānis Elsbergs, translators - Ingmāra Balode, Uldis Bērziņš, Hermanis Marģers Majevskis, Māris Salējs. Design: Anna Aizsilniece.
Supported by the State Culture Capital Foundation.