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In this book, like in previous ones, an important place is allotted to poems with long titles, which is my innovation. As far as I know, this form of poetry does not have analogues either here or anywhere else in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ccite\u003eEduards Aivars\u003c\/cite\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":17665737029,"sku":"","price":2.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/Aivars_sh.jpg?v=1462875679"},{"product_id":"zesti","title":"Gestures","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e Žesti\u003c\/em\u003e is the third poetry collection of Artis Ostups. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe author surveys gestures with the help of unusually powerful and concentrated texts, combining poetry with prose. Human communication, relationships, details of everyday life and history serve as an abundant arsenal of behavioural patterns, from which Ostups selects the most significant ones in order to turn them into gestures and make the reader to experience and feel them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ccite\u003eKārlis Vērdiņš\u003c\/cite\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/Ostups_atv.jpg?v=1570889486\"\u003e\n","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":17912796229,"sku":"","price":2.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/Ostups_sh.jpg?v=1464090568"},{"product_id":"livija-endzelina","title":"Līvija Endzelīna","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe series \"Classics of Latvian Art\" presents a book about \u0026nbsp;Līvija Endzelīna (1927–2008).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLīvija Endzelīna \u0026nbsp;is one of the best-known but also one of the\u0026nbsp;most enigmatic figures in 20th century Latvian art. Already in the early 60s,\u0026nbsp;when her work was just beginning to appear in exhibitions, it drew undivided\u0026nbsp;acclaim from the public as well as recognition within the professional\u0026nbsp;community. However, behind this work, so rapidly gaining in renown, was\u0026nbsp;a solitary artist who avoided commenting publically on the development of\u0026nbsp;her art, the influences behind it or the creative principles she was following.\u0026nbsp;The attraction of her still lifes was due to their national and metaphysically\u0026nbsp;surreal imagery, presented in a seemingly comprehensible visual language\u0026nbsp;that imitated reality. Līvija Endzelīna brought to Latvian art a new, original\u0026nbsp;and very subjective version of painting, differing from the academic method\u0026nbsp;of Socialist Realism cultivated in the preceding decades and from the avantgarde\u0026nbsp;hyperrealism that was emerging in her time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ccite\u003eDaina Auziņa\u003c\/cite\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/Endzelina_atv1.jpg?v=1570813777\"\u003e\n\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/Endzelina_atv2.jpg?v=1570813812\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe series \"Classics of Latvian Art\" includes books of medium size, offering an easily perceptible information about Latvian classical artists and their works. The series is intended as bilingual (Latvian\/English), richly illustrated publications. An attractive supplement at the end of each book is a timeline where the life of Latvian artists can be viewed within the context of world events, revealing connections, parallels or just interesting coincidences.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":18021477765,"sku":"","price":5.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/Endzelina_sh.jpg?v=1464681024"},{"product_id":"inta-celmina-2","title":"Inta Celmiņa","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe album collects more than 200 works by one of the foremost Latvian painters of the last third of the 20th century, also an outstanding draughtswoman Inta Celmiņa.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is difficult to say why, when contemplating paintings by certain artists, one is overcome by a sensation of happiness. And not even because there might be something cheery or particularly optimistic about them. But this feeling envelops you – and that’s it. You could also say that the anticipation of encountering the works by these artists is like receiving an invitation to a journey, one that promises something of importance to you, something missing from everyday life. For me, that is exactly what it is like with paintings by Inta Celmiņa\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ccite\u003eLaima Slava\u003c\/cite\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/Inta_Celmina_atverums.jpg?v=1570647695\" alt=\"Inta Celmiņa\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/Inta_Celmina_atverums_2.jpg?v=1570647852\" alt=\"Inta Celmiņa\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHaving worked in the field of painting my entire life, I have arrived at the conclusion that the painterly form cannot be expressed in words. Titles and literary explanations do not reveal the idea because it resides in emotions, currents and flashes and perhaps cannot even be found that easily. One has to know how to look at painting, one has to perceive its currents and find a correspondence to one’s own feelings. There are many ways not to see or understand something, to pass by, and yet how many riches are in this field, how many centuries paintings find their audience and give pleasure! 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However this does not aspire to be a comprehensive overview of the creative output of Alvis Hermanis. The pictures have been selected from the most visually interesting productions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/Hermanis_atv2.jpg?v=1570383793\" alt=\"Alvis Hermanis\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Already long ago we had started up a conversation about the possibility of a publication such as this with theatre critic Normunds Naumanis, who in the earliest years was the first to appreciate Alvis Hermanis’ achievements in the theatre and continued to be a keen reviewer of his productions. Unfortunately fate had decreed otherwise. The fragments from Naumanis’ reviews for this collection of images were carefully selected by Sarmīte Ēlerte – his friend and colleague at the newspaper Diena. As a long-term follower and fan of Alvis Hermanis’ theatrical events, and possibly the only person who has seen all of the productions that Hermanis has staged abroad, Ēlerte was also invited to conduct an interview with Alvis Hermanis. The director himself agreed to write a short commentary on each of his productions. But the introductory essay was written by the erudite theatre historian and critic Edīte Tišheizere. The design of the album was conceived and carried out with great commitment and thoroughness by the artist Inese Hofmane.\" (Laima Slava)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/Hermanis_atv3.jpg?v=1570383610\" alt=\"Alvis Hermanis\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMy greatest conviction is that every story is in its own way a model of the world per se. Every opera, every play, every poem exists as a model of the world in miniature. Latvians have a saying: the sun in a drop of dew. This tiny dewdrop with its spherical shape reflects the entire cosmos. I regard each story told in the language of the theatre in a similar way. Each individual work is embedded in a certain anthropological context, with all the consequences that follow from that, also at the aesthetic level, as regards style, the visualisation. Because for me visualisation is always the beginning of the beginning. Until I begin to see pictures of how the production could look, the process simply cannot take place..\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ccite\u003eAlvis Hermanis\u003c\/cite\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/Hermanis_atv4.jpg?v=1570383455\" alt=\"Alvis Hermanis\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":20469379141,"sku":"","price":15.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/Hermanis_sh.jpg?v=1474364088"},{"product_id":"alvis-hermanis-anglu-valoda","title":"Alvis Hermanis","description":"\u003cp\u003eCollection of images from 43 opera and theatre performances staged by Alvis Hermanis both in Latvia and abroad. However this does not aspire to be a comprehensive overview of the creative output of Alvis Hermanis. The pictures have been selected from the most visually interesting productions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/Hermanis_atv4.jpg?v=1570383455\" alt=\"Alvis Hermanis\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Already long ago we had started up a conversation about the possibility of a publication such as this with theatre critic Normunds Naumanis, who in the earliest years was the first to appreciate Alvis Hermanis’ achievements in the theatre and continued to be a keen reviewer of his productions. Unfortunately fate had decreed otherwise. The fragments from Naumanis’ reviews for this collection of images were carefully selected by Sarmīte Ēlerte – his friend and colleague at the newspaper Diena. As a long-term follower and fan of Alvis Hermanis’ theatrical events, and possibly the only person who has seen all of the productions that Hermanis has staged abroad, Ēlerte was also invited to conduct an interview with Alvis Hermanis. The director himself agreed to write a short commentary on each of his productions. But the introductory essay was written by the erudite theatre historian and critic Edīte Tišheizere. The design of the album was conceived and carried out with great commitment and thoroughness by the artist Inese Hofmane.\" (Laima Slava)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/Hermanis_atv3.jpg?v=1570383610\" alt=\"Alvis Hermanis\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMy greatest conviction is that every story is in its own way a model of the world per se. Every opera, every play, every poem exists as a model of the world in miniature. Latvians have a saying: the sun in a drop of dew. This tiny dewdrop with its spherical shape reflects the entire cosmos. I regard each story told in the language of the theatre in a similar way. Each individual work is embedded in a certain anthropological context, with all the consequences that follow from that, also at the aesthetic level, as regards style, the visualisation. Because for me visualisation is always the beginning of the beginning. Until I begin to see pictures of how the production could look, the process simply cannot take place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ccite\u003eAlvis Hermanis\u003c\/cite\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/Hermanis_atv2.jpg?v=1570383793\" alt=\"Alvis Hermanis\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":20469953989,"sku":"","price":15.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/Hermanis_sh_0c4b8cee-a3a4-4bfe-9452-05deab33f10a.jpg?v=1474367124"},{"product_id":"daba-kluse","title":"Nature is Silent","description":"\u003cp\u003eArtist Ieva Jurjāne’s watercolour paintings in the series “Nature is Silent” were created in 2015\/2016, and the book “Nature is Silent” includes 23 of them. The paintings are supplemented with photos capturing the work process as well as Ieva Jurjāne’s notes and an essay by art historian Elīna Sproģe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/G1A1079.jpg?v=1570555845\" alt=\"Ieva Jurjāne\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEncounters with nature are used intuitively to compensate for the fragility of human existence, existential questions and varying levels of despair. Maddening questions demand answers. Nature meets you with silence. This silence occassionally rejects, but sometimes also accepts and welcomes. A person’s longing makes them search for a different scale of reference. In reality people place their small-scale “I” within a context that provokes larger or smaller connections. A trip to the mountains, to a desert or under water is an opportunity to be reborn with new senses. A “still life” is always a specially organized construction. The miniaturization of people in relation to the elements of Nature creates a grotesque overemphasis. By looking at that which is visible for a prolonged period, paradoxically expansive associations emerge. The opportunity to direct the process of staging the composition is tempting – like the presumption of being able to control one’s own human nature and life. In playing with the fragile porcelain figures, scenes in the theatre of life and death are revealed. Examining that which is visible helps one ponder the expanse and limitations of existence. The figures are humans in their naked essence, with nothing extraneous. As playfully as myths, they come into contact with the mythology of Nature. The meeting is tempting, beautiful and frightening. And ironical. 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She has participated in group exhibitions in Riga, Vilnius, Berlin, Moscow, Tallinn, Brussels, St Petersburg, Bremen, Helsinki and elsewhere; she has also had several solo shows.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the moment Maija Kurševa is active in the artists’ collective “Popper Publishing“, is among organisers of the Riga Zine Festival, as well as teaches screenprinting and illustration at the Art Academy of Latvia\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/kursheva_atv3.jpg?v=1570813985\"\u003e\n\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/kursheva_atv1.jpg?v=1570814145\"\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Studija Library” is a series of books providing a comprehensive insight into the Latvian art scene of the turn of the 21st century. 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The first book of the series was published in 2008.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/kursheva_atv2.jpg?v=1570814180\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37105267472,"sku":"","price":2.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/kursheva_sh.jpg?v=1495190677"},{"product_id":"sigita-daugule","title":"Sigita Daugule","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe album of artist Sigita Daugule (1971) which includes more than 150 reproductions of her works, Dace Lamberga’s essay about the artist, as well as Laima Slava‘s conversation with Daugule.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/Daugule_atv2.jpg?v=1570884540\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“To a large degree, Sigita Daugule’s personality reflects typical aspects of the artist in the late 20th and early 21st century: a powerful intellect, a diverse range of interests, logical yet unorthodox thinking, pronounced individuality and independence combined with refined interpersonal skills.\nThe latest discoveries in painting technology are vital tools in conjuring up imagery and associations, expressing individual discoveries, reflections and evaluations of the world. Sigita’s creative expression successfully embodies both the rational and irrational; the fascinating surface texture in every painting has a magnet like quality drawing the attention from impressive general view to close-up. Her art will be appreciated by the aesthetic, intellectual observer accustomed to examining and analysing in depth, desirous of feeling the true essence of painting.\" (Dace Lamberga)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/Daugule_atv3.jpg?v=1570884511\"\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI loved what\u0026nbsp;Vineta Kaulača said in an interview: painting is an\u0026nbsp;eternal present tense. A good painting – whether\u0026nbsp;it’s the “little Dutchmen” or Giotto – is suspended\u0026nbsp;in time, but this time extends to the present day.\u0026nbsp;It exists now, before and after – it is omnipresent\u0026nbsp;time. I totally agree! Painting is an eternal present\u0026nbsp;moment. If you are able to put a concrete event or\u0026nbsp;the essence of something into a painting and it is\u0026nbsp;well done, then it extends into eternity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ccite\u003eSigita Daugule\u003c\/cite\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/Daugule_atv1.jpg?v=1570884484\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSigita Daugule has had solo\u0026nbsp;exhibitions in Latvia and abroad –\u0026nbsp;at the galleries\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003eSeywald\u003c\/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;(Salzburg),\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003eUlrike Hrobsky\u003c\/em\u003e, (Vienna), \u003cem\u003ealpha\u003c\/em\u003e (Vienna),\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003eN. 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I like to create for myself, to put\u0026nbsp;things together even if I know they will fall apart.\u0026nbsp;This is a path to clarity of the soul. The artist’s\u0026nbsp;most important instrument is belief in his own\u0026nbsp;inner voice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ccite\u003eKaspars Zariņš\u003c\/cite\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003ccite\u003e\u003c\/cite\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/Kaspars-Zarins_atv2.jpg?v=1570735057\"\u003e \u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/Kaspars-Zarins_atv1.jpg?v=1570734875\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKaspars Zariņš sees the world with childlike directness and naivety, free of humbug, and this is something you cannot learn – you either have it or you don’t. I agree, although there is no such thing as absolute truth. My painting is and remains Kaspars Zariņš’ “Sunny Day”, and it represents a watershed between the way he was before the exhibition “Oh, Happy One!” and after this self-exhibiting in \u003cem\u003eGallery Daugava\u003c\/em\u003e in 2000. I will not speak about his painting periods and influences or analyse them, although I could if I pulled my socks up, and sometimes I do just that.\nMy conclusion: something significant changes in him every ten years, although the pillars of his painting are still beauty and sadness,” writes Anda Treija.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/Kaspars-Zarins_atv3.jpg?v=1570734941\"\u003e\n","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42470160336,"sku":"","price":10.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/Kaspars-Zarins_sh.jpg?v=1504864523"},{"product_id":"edgars-verpe","title":"Edgars Vērpe","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the album about Edgars Vērpe Dace Lamberga has systematically laid out all of Edgars Vērpe’s life\u0026nbsp;and art together with groundings for changes, contemporary background\u0026nbsp;and artistic context. The album is enriched with three\u0026nbsp;Laima Slava's conversations with Edgars Vērpe (2000, 2002 and 2017).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Most contemporaries will unambiguously answer the question “Who is\u0026nbsp;Edgars Vērpe?” by stating that he is the director of the State Culture Capital\u0026nbsp;Foundation, while others might mention that he was once the principal\u0026nbsp;of the Janis Rozentāls Secondary School of Art, credited with securing a\u0026nbsp;new building for the institution. Serious fishermen may recall he was the\u0026nbsp;creator of the TV show “Cope” [Dangling a Line] and a producer at the\u0026nbsp;VFS Films. However, although many years of work have left him bereft of\u0026nbsp;his creative vocation, Edgars Vērpe considers himself to be first and foremost\u0026nbsp;an artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ccite\u003eDace Lamberga\u003c\/cite\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/Verpe_atv1.jpg?v=1570558760\" alt=\"Edgars Vērpe\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“However calm and unhurried he might appear on the first impression,\u0026nbsp;Edgars Vērpe is also cagey and unpredictable. It seems to me that Edgars\u0026nbsp;is not only an artist, teacher, culture manager and TV star; he is also a\u0026nbsp;skilful stage director who regularly, quietly composes existential miseenscenes\u0026nbsp;to surprise his contemporaries. And this can be disturbingly unexpected\u0026nbsp;both in terms of changing point of leverage and artistic exploration.\u0026nbsp;This impression is reinforced by the interviews he has given over the\u0026nbsp;years and which I reread during the preparation of this book. At a new\u0026nbsp;stage in life, the answers frame fresh horizons as well as offering memory\u0026nbsp;fragments – even from childhood – which logically justify the new decisions.\u0026nbsp;Moreover, after all this time, he has come to realize that nothing\u0026nbsp;significant has changed regarding his interests in art and in the means of\u0026nbsp;expression,” writes Laima Slava.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/Verpe_atv3.jpg?v=1570558831\" alt=\"Edgars Vērpe\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI just enjoy being in the studio and working with the\u0026nbsp;materials. I experiment in many different ways and I do lots of\u0026nbsp;things which end in the trashcan. I love working with substances\u0026nbsp;and then I feel that the studio gives me a second wind. I come to\u0026nbsp;the studio after work, and I can work for four or five hours feeling\u0026nbsp;great. I only get my ideas through working. Those ideas you get while you’re not working – you can calmly chuck them away. But\u0026nbsp;then there wouldn’t be a reason to go to the studio. You go to the\u0026nbsp;studio because you have an idea, but then when you get going you\u0026nbsp;realise nothing will come of it, and that’s when it all begins.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ccite\u003eEdgars Vērpe\u003c\/cite\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42590785808,"sku":"","price":10.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/Verpe_sh.jpg?v=1505137533"},{"product_id":"fridrihs-milts","title":"Fridrihs Milts","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe life of legendary personality Fridrihs Milts (1906–1993) was spent between the Riga suburb of Pārdaugava and Manhattan, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/atv.jpg?v=1570560383\" alt=\"Fridrihs Milts\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe painter \u0026nbsp;studied at the Figural Painting Master Class of the Art Academy of Latvia (1927–1932). Milts painted scenes from peasant life, landscapes, portraits and nudes. At the end of the 1930s he was carried away by the magic of the light touch of the pastel technique and became a much respected author in the eyes of the public.\u0026nbsp;In 1944 Fridrihs Milts became a refugee and left for Germany, but in 1951 he arrived in New York where he worked for many years as a building supervisor in the Manhattan docks district known as Hell’s Kitchen. The phenomenon of this place has been written about mainly in connection with the poets Linards Tauns and Gunārs Saliņš, but it was the artist’s basement studio that became the legendary heart of the bohemian life of exiled Latvians.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/Milts_atv2.jpg?v=1570560444\" alt=\"Fridrihs Milts\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFridrihs Milts’ painting that gained recognition across the ocean only among a narrow circle of compatriots, changed radically and he turned to the simplification of innovative forms. Milts spent almost forty years in Manhattan. He painted women with extended necks and almond-shaped eyes, still lifes, colourful Mexican landscapes, but his favourite motif was views of the silhouettes of New York’s skyscrapers from the top floor of his building.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/Milts_atv1.jpg?v=1570560485\" alt=\"Fridrihs Milts\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42875770896,"sku":"","price":5.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/Milts_sh.jpg?v=1505729448"},{"product_id":"antons-georgs-bose-zimejumi","title":"Anton Georg Bosse. 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All togeather there are 209 drawings by\u0026nbsp;Anton Georg Bosse (1792–1860), the\u0026nbsp;pastor of Ēvele Parish, in\u0026nbsp;the\u0026nbsp;museum collection \u0026nbsp;– 206 portraits, one\u0026nbsp;landscape, two title-pages and seven pages of handwriting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/Bose_atv2.jpg?v=1570385595\" alt=\"Antons Georgs Bose\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough the eyes of Anton Georg Bosse we see a\u0026nbsp;typical scene of life in one parish in rural Livonia in the\u0026nbsp;mid-19th century, which displays characteristic traits\u0026nbsp;of class distinctions amongst the peasantry. The people of\u0026nbsp;Ēvele and the nearby surroundings include masters and\u0026nbsp;servants, tradesmen, the parish school teacher and his\u0026nbsp;students, military conscripts, beggars, a sexton and pastor,\u0026nbsp;innkeepers and even a musician\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/Bose_atv1.jpg?v=1570385814\" alt=\"Antons Georgs Bose\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is\u0026nbsp;good knowledge of local conditions, a realistic visual\u0026nbsp;perception of life, undoubtedly also a tendency to idealize\u0026nbsp;the patriarchal traditions of the peasant class, and a\u0026nbsp;pointed interest in cultural historical drawing that define\u0026nbsp;the unique value of the prolific achievement of Anton\u0026nbsp;Georg Bosse in the study Latvian history of the 19th\u0026nbsp;century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAncestors of the Bosse family have occupied a\u0026nbsp;significant place in Latvian cultural and art history. The\u0026nbsp;half-brother of Anton Georg Bosse was a well-known Baltic\u0026nbsp;German portrait painter Ernst Gotthilf Bosse (1785–1862),\u0026nbsp;whose son, the architect Harald Julius von Bosse (1812–1894), designed the Riga Bourse building.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":4925959110693,"sku":"","price":5.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/Bose_sh.jpg?v=1512035440"},{"product_id":"stalina-gara-ena-latvijas-telotaja-maksla-1940-1956","title":"Stalin's Long Shadow in Latvian Fine Art. 1940–1956","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe art history of Latvia from 1940 to 1956 is one of the little-researched areas examined in this book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book has four chapters further divided into sub-chapters, covering the main events in three spheres: the work of the Artists’ Union and its subsidiary institutions; the role of the Latvian Academy of Art as nurturer of young artists and its political and artistic activities; and a look at the life of Latvia’s art museums, including provincial museums with significant art departments.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/1atverums1176.jpg?v=1570885087\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter one examines the historical events in Latvia following the\u0026nbsp;Soviet occupation of June 1940, which disrupted the natural development\u0026nbsp;of art and culture and caused tragic human losses in the terror\u0026nbsp;inflicted from the very beginning of the occupation.\u0026nbsp;This was accompanied by demands to employ Socialist Realism in art.\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter two attempts to follow those artists who, as loyalists of\u0026nbsp;the Soviet regime, fled to the USSR; however, this is hampered by limited\u0026nbsp;access to archives in Russia.\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter three covers the period after the Second World War when\u0026nbsp;Soviet rule, interrupted in June 1941, was re-imposed.\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter four is devoted to artists who were persecuted in this brutal\u0026nbsp;period, and how those who physically survived were marginalised\u0026nbsp;from artistic activities temporarily or for the rest of their lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/2atverums1176.jpg?v=1570885240\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe year 1953 was a turning point in Soviet history. 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