{"title":"All categories","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"alnis-stakle","title":"Alnis Stakle","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe book tells about the one of few internationally acclaimed younger-generation photographers Alnis Stakle. He has participated in exhibitions of photography and contemporary art since 1998, and has also created solo exhibitions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelf-portraits, still lifes and close-ups of the private milieu, and detached views of deserted (or almost deserted) landscapes – such are the characteristic motifs of Alnis’ photography. Commenting on his own work, Alnis frequently emphasises its personal character: motifs such as dreaming, introspection and meditation are combined and reiterated. His work certainly is personal, but that does not mean it’s overt or intimate. Alnis utilises material from life in order to create and develop his system of imagery, and all of his works are characterised by detached and reticent observation, as if from outside or from above, and this special perspective, cleansed of emotion, presents an opportunity for polysemous interpretation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author of the book Alise Tīfentāle has studied communication studies, theology and art history. She is also the author of a collection of short stories and two novels. Since 1996, she has been publishing reviews and studies on contemporary art.\n\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":474931173,"sku":"","price":2.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/alnis-stakle-cover-shopify.jpg?v=1389360965"},{"product_id":"uga-skulme","title":"Uga Skulme","description":"\u003cp\u003e “Uga Skulme” is already the third comprehensive album within the series dedicated to the classics of Latvian art. Artist Uga Skulme (1895–1963), who belongs to the distinguished Skulme family, represents the generation which shaped the Latvian art history of the 20th century.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/uga-skulme-atverums-40.jpg?v=1570887312\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The list of works included in the album, comprises more than 300 paintings, graphic works and drawings from various collections. Authors of the texts – art historians Dace Lamberga and Jurģis Skulme, as well as the artist’s models Elvīra Baldiņa and Sarmīte Sīle – each reveal a different aspect of Uga Skulme’s personality through different periods of time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe album is supplemented with the artist’s recollections in a separate volume, which contains a unique, never before published material.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":474965605,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/Uga-Skulme-shopify.jpg?v=1389364148"},{"product_id":"samanu-puse","title":"The Land of Shamans","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs the title suggests, this is a book about Tuvan shamans and their rituals as seen through eyes of the well-known Latvian photographer Andrejs Grants and publicist Uldis Tīrons.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth authors began their story in the early nineties and completed it this year when they repeatedly visited Tuva, the country that borders with Russia in the North and Mongolia in the South. For westerners Tuva is an exotic, faraway country with two religions: Tibetan Buddhism and shamanism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFocusing on the life and traditions of shamans, such as burial in aboveground sarcophagus, the book is a captivating source of precise and interesting anthropological information for wide circles of readers. Reading or just leafing through its pages reminds of a shamanic journey through unusual, slightly surreal landscapes and scenes that allows to widen one’s consciousness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":474968029,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/Samanu-puse-shopify.jpg?v=1389364288"},{"product_id":"mani-darbi-un-nedarbi","title":"Mani darbi un nedarbi","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Mani darbi un nedarbi” ir intriģējošs ieskats neparastā latviešu izcelsmes zviedru arhitekta-dizainera Andreja Legzdiņa karjerā, radošajos meklējumos un atradumos 20. gs. dizaina pasaulē.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAndrejs Legzdiņš ir vienīgais latviešu dizaineris, par kuru sešas reizes veidotas publikācijas itāļu dizaina žurnālā DOMUS.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVienā no šīm publikācijām septiņdesmitajos gados Legzdiņš radījis vīziju — viņš sēž pie datora un runājas ar draugu. Šodien tas patiešām notiek! Toreiz Andrejs Legzdiņš Zviedrijā bijis tāds kā disidents un ķēpājies ar lietām, kuras zviedri nav uzskatījuši par ievērības cienīgām — ar industriālo dizainu. Konkrēti — ar dažādām lidmašīnu konstrukcijām. Šobrīd, kad visi ir sapratuši, ka tehnoloģijas un daba tomēr var nebūt divas karojošas frontes, Legzdiņa darbi ir īpaši interesanti.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTā kā esmu vizuāls cilvēks, gribu taisīt šo savu grāmatu kā stāstu par savu dzīvi caur bildēm. Jo visu mūžu esmu lasījis grāmatas un publikācijas kā žurnālā DOMUS — vizuāli, tas ir, caur bildēm, jo burti un teksti man ir traucējuši. Domāju, ka liela daļa no šīs grāmatas lasītājiem ir tādi paši vizuāli cilvēki kā es, tāpēc mēģinu minimāli izmantot tekstus un ļaut runāt bildēm.\u003c\/p\u003e \n\u003ccite\u003eAndrejs Legzdiņš\u003c\/cite\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrāmatā autors, arī Kārļa Skalbes mazdēls, ļauj ielūkoties arī savā bērnībā, ģimenes promceļā no dzimtenes un pēckara gados Stokholmā, latviešu “kultūras geto” Aspuddenā. Savukārt personības veidošanās laiku iezīmē tikšanās ar sava laika slavenībām arhitektu Dāvidu Helldēnu un mākslinieku Ulli Bērtlingu, ar Bakija Fullera un žurnāla DOMUS idejām.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":494817333,"sku":"","price":10.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/mani-darbi-veikalam-40.jpg?v=1390317319"},{"product_id":"atminu-gramata","title":"A Book of Recollections","description":"\u003cp\u003e The monographic album dedicated to Uga Skulme is supplemented with the artist’s book of recollections, containing a significant material that had never been published before. Chronologically it dates back to the distant past of the family and ends with the last years of the artist’s life. Being an outstanding art reviewer, he writes his notes too with a fine literary taste which makes them colourful, witty and intellectually saturated. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The aim of the notes is to keep those stories for the family. Because of that, Uga Skulme makes them very vital, unsophisticated and organic, telling about the things that somebody else would just omit as not being smart enough for publication. The result is outstanding.\" (Arno Jundze)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":494833853,"sku":"","price":8.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/Atminu-gram-veikalam-40.jpg?v=1390317966"},{"product_id":"sakralas-arhitekturas-un-makslas-mantojums-valmieras-rajona","title":"The Heritage of Religious Architecture and Art in Valmiera District","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book continues the series of publications \"Monuments of Art in Latvia\" that began with the book \"The Heritage of Religious Architecture and Art in Daugavpils District\" by Rūta Kaminska and Anita Bistere (2006).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe heritage of religious art and architecture includes both well-known and unnoticed architectural and artistic values.\nIn view of the small number of churches in Valmiera District, included in this book are the churches of all denominations about which more or less definite information is available. Also, in contrast to other volumes in this series, this book also covers mortuary chapels and tombs.\nThe basis for this is the historical link between burial practices and churches. This link is expressed in the medieval tradition of burial inside the church. There is also the original connection between cemeteries and the mortuary practices of particular denominations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book has come together as a compilation of material, evaluating the factual data through careful acquaintance with a range of different sources, from medieval chronicles and 17th–18th century church inspection reports to modern-day studies, checking the descriptions in previous works (for example, the facts and assertions that tend to travel from one publication to the next, but which are not always correct), examining the opinions expressed by historians of art and architecture, which are sometimes open to dispute, and striving to trace the process of study and preservation of the religious cultural heritage.\nParticular attention has been focussed on drawings, plans and photographs kept in various repositories – the State Historical Archives of Latvia, the Museum of the History of Riga and Navigation, the Departments of Manuscripts and Rare Books of the Latvian Academic Library, the Baltic Central Library, Rundāle Palace Museum, Valmiera Local History Museum and the Rūjiena Exhibition Hall – and in congregational and private collections. By utilising as illustrative material not only postcards and recent photographs, but also older and rarer images, it was possible to trace the changes that have affected churches, their surroundings and interiors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author of the book Jānis Kalnačs (born 1956 in Pārdaugava, Riga). Art historian, Dr. art., Professor of Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences. From 1979 to 2008, in parallel with other work, he worked as Cultural Monuments Inspector for Valmiera District. His research interests and practical work relate to the history of art and culture in Latvia (especially the 1930s and artist Kārlis Padegs, the Nazi German occupation, unusual personalities, lost art collections, the relationships between power and art), preservation of the cultural heritage and cultural tourism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":496801117,"sku":"","price":7.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/Sakralais-Valmiera_lv_shopify.jpg?v=1390830295"},{"product_id":"edvards-grube","title":"Edvards Grūbe","description":"\u003cp\u003eA monograph on the well-known Latvian painter Edvards Grūbe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEdvards Grūbe is a master of colour, a painter whose chosen language is powerful and expansive enough to address and demand an equally\u0026nbsp;strong observer. His works need distance, because the field of their influence is intense and ranges over a large space. Their message is indivisible from the matter of painting, which submits to his brush – fluid, existentially dramatic, ardently romantic and considerately tender.\nRight now, Edvards Grūbe’s painting marks one of the highest points of our culture. Scope and strength based in professional proficiency, thought whose fundamental simplicity has been tempered by life experience and intense intellectual probing during work to determine the dimensions of its depth,\nand an unbending stance on the ethics of art and the artist, independently of any rules imposed by the age: these are the assets in Grūbe’s creative fund today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ccite\u003eLaima Slava\u003c\/cite\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":496839713,"sku":"","price":12.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/Grube_shopify.JPG?v=1390813635"},{"product_id":"mus-pazina-ka-lietiskos","title":"We were known as applied art students","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe book comprises a rich material on Riga Applied Arts School (now Riga Design and Art School), its place and role in the context of Latvian art and art education.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":496848677,"sku":"","price":4.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/lietiskie_shopify.jpg?v=1390999644"},{"product_id":"lietus-par-kanalu-e","title":"Rain over the channel E","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first published collection of poems by Latvian author Jānis Hvoinskis.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":498381369,"sku":"","price":1.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/Hvoinskis_shopify.jpg?v=1390828869"},{"product_id":"janis-skucs","title":"Jānis Skučs","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe book by Gundega Cēbere (Master of Arts) tells about the life and works of a painter Jānis Skučs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring the second half of the last century Skučs worked almost exclusively as a marine artist.\nThe sea attracted him with its inexhaustible nuances, and the artist’s interest was not only in the superficial depiction of seascapes, but he was also drawn by the essential: the sea as a space with depth and suffused with light, and devoid of all that is extraneous.\nIt seems as if the painter, having extracted from nature the precise details, created his own unified system of images in varying rhythms, and in his seascapes the sea is portrayed without the usual characteristic elements such as fishing boats and fishing nets onshore.\u0026nbsp;Continuing in a romantic vein and highlighting the dynamic motion of the water, the sea is almost always shown as slightly ruffled or in a storm, on days both sunny and cloudy, and it is not only the obvious manifestations of natural phenomena that are presented, but the subject has unleashed dramatic feelings and heightened emotions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe reflection by fellow artist Arturs Ņikitins that “Skučs was regarded as the finest anatomist of the sea waves” is substantiated by his painstaking devotion to his work, as well as the recognition of the public.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":498384705,"sku":"","price":2.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/Skucs-janis_shopify.jpg?v=1390827898"},{"product_id":"hegela-dvesele-un-viskonsinas-govis-begosais-genijs","title":"L'anima di Hegel e le Mucche del Wisconsin. Il Genio in Fuga","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis edition includes two books by the well-known author Alessandro Baricco: \"L'anima di Hegel e le Mucche del Wisconsin\" and \"Il Genio in Fuga: Due Saggi Sul Teatro Musicale di Gioachino Rossini\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":498387733,"sku":"","price":3.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/Barico_Hegelis-shopify-40.jpg?v=1390488056"},{"product_id":"famous-five","title":"Famous Five","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe book tells about the group of artists 'Famous five' or 'F5'. The group formed in 1998 during the ‘Polar Circuit’ media art symposium in Tornio, Finland.\nIn 2002 they participated in the 25th Sao Paulo Biennial with the work ‘Have a Nice Night’, and in 2005 represented the Republic of Latvia at the Venice Biennale 51st International Exhibition of Contemporary Art with the exhibition ‘Dark Bulb’.\nIn 2003 'F5' won the competition held by the Ministry of Culture for participation in the Venice Biennale 50th International Exhibition of Contemporary Art with the ‘Euphoria’ project. (As a consequence of political decisions participation in the biennale was cancelled, although the project was published in the biennale catalogue).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author Jānis Taurens has studied architecture at the Riga Polytechnic Institute and philosophy at the University of Latvia. He is a Doctor of Philosophy and professor at the Latvia Academy of Art. He is thinking and writing about philosophy, architecture and contemporary art.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":498392433,"sku":"","price":2.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/Famous-five-veikals-40.jpg?v=1390488400"},{"product_id":"libiesi","title":"The Livs","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this photographic essay Juki Nakamura travels around Latvia in order to find manifestations of the intangible cultural heritage of the Liv people. As he photographed people in their natural environment he discovered a group that cultivated their cultural traditions as a testimony to their living heritage. Today there are only a few Livs that speak their mother tongue.\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a poem by Juris Kronbergs, introductions by Valda Marija Šuvcāne and Rasma Noriņa, this book traces the history of the Liv people.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Livs are a small ethnic group that belongs to the Balto-Finns and speaks an ancient Finno-Ugrian language. Little by little they have been assimilated into the Latvian population. Today there is a growing interest in preserving the Liv traditions and heritage, and every year there is a festival in Mazirbe where the language and songs are still heard.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":498461509,"sku":"","price":12.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/libiesi-cover.jpg?v=1391521157"},{"product_id":"es-zveru-pie-kraukliem","title":" I swear by ravens","description":"\n\u003cfigure\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOgriņš is endowed with powerful poetic temperament, he writes without restraint, mixing tenses, genders, styles, however, his poetry remains emotionally and intellectually balanced. One can rely on the taste and psychological sincerity of this poet – in his works we won't find anything false. Ogriņš' search for expression is interesting, stimulating and often quite convincing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ccite\u003eJānis Rokpelnis\u003c\/cite\u003e\n\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003c\/figure\u003e","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":501026825,"sku":"","price":1.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/Ogrins_es-zveru-pie-kraukliem_shopify.jpg?v=1390573070"},{"product_id":"the-heritage-of-religious-architecture-and-art-in-valmiera-district","title":"The heritage of religious architecture and art in Valmiera district (English edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eThis book continues the series of publications \"Monuments of Art in Latvia\". The heritage of religious art and architecture includes both well-known and unnoticed architectural and artistic values.\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn view of the small number of churches in Valmiera District, included in this book are the churches of all denominations about which more or less definite information is available. Also, in contrast to other volumes in this series, this book also covers mortuary chapels and tombs.\nThe basis for this is the historical link between burial practices and churches. This link is expressed in the medieval tradition of burial inside the church. There is also the original connection between cemeteries and the mortuary practices of particular denominations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book has come together as a compilation of material, evaluating the factual data through careful acquaintance with a range of different sources, from medieval chronicles and 17th–18th century church inspection reports to modern-day studies, checking the descriptions in previous works (for example, the facts and assertions that tend to travel from one publication to the next, but which are not always correct), examining the opinions expressed by historians of art and architecture, which are sometimes open to dispute, and striving to trace the process of study and preservation of the religious cultural heritage.\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eParticular attention has been focussed on drawings, plans and photographs kept in various repositories – the State Historical Archives of Latvia, the Museum of the History of Riga and Navigation, the Departments of Manuscripts and Rare Books of the Latvian Academic Library, the Baltic Central Library, Rundāle Palace Museum, Valmiera Local History Museum and the Rūjiena Exhibition Hall – and in congregational and private collections.\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":506229085,"sku":"","price":7.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/Sakralais-Valmiera_eng_shopify.jpg?v=1390825582"},{"product_id":"lellu-pasaules-goda-pilsonis","title":"Honorary Citizen of the Puppet World","description":"\u003cp\u003ePuppet Theatre is one of the treasures of Latvian culture which it is justly proud of, taking into account that not every European country can boast of such a value. What is the history of our Puppet Theatre and who stood behind its creation?\nArtist Pāvils Šenhofs (1924–2011) was among the originators of the Latvian Puppet Theatre, creating its history almost throughout the whole period of its existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e„Along with verbal honouring and official recognition Pāvils Šenhofs definitely deserves one more title – an Honorary Citizen of the Puppet World. He himself has created this world, which is sovereign, colourful, vivacious, appealing and talking to us.\" (Aldis Linē)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/Lellu-pasaules_atverums1_wordpress.jpg?v=1570813235\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":550207989,"sku":"","price":5.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/Lellu-pasaules-pilsonis-700px.jpg?v=1392733689"},{"product_id":"edgars-krigers","title":"Edgars Krīgers","description":"\u003cp\u003eMonograph on one of the most vivid representatives of Latvian naive painting, Edgars Krīgers (1917-1999). The richly illustrated book includes biographical data, analysis of Krīgers' oeuvre and a list of most significant paintings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArt historian Aivars Leitis has been\u0026nbsp;exploring naive art since his studies at the art academy. His previous book \"Tīrradņi: Naive art in Latvia\" was published by Neputns Publishers in 2005.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":615946161,"sku":"","price":1.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/Edgars-Krigers_shopify.jpg?v=1394803979"},{"product_id":"gints-gabrans","title":"Gints Gabrāns","description":"\u003cp\u003eGints Gabrāns is contemporary artist representing Latvia in Venice Biennale 2007.\nGints' path in art, or\u0026nbsp;„passage way” has been characterized by bright moments (his first attempts in printing were also in bright colours), which reminds you more of the elements of a literary work. Bright and also sharp - like the work \u0026nbsp;„Knife to Cut One's Arse With” - in their own way they continue to expand the field of art started by Marcel Duchamp.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":616024245,"sku":"","price":2.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/gints-gabrans_shopify.jpg?v=1394808470"},{"product_id":"janis-kreicbergs","title":"Jānis Kreicbergs","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis album comprises works created by a famous Latvian photographer Jānis Kreicbergs over 45 years (from 1960 to 2005) within a geographically vast area (USA – Europe – Asia) and under various political regimes (the USSR during the Khrushchev Thaw, Soviet bloc and Western countries on both sides of the “iron curtain” during the Cold War, and the renewed independent Republic of Latvia).\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe album contains widely published and exhibited works along with first publications, i.e. the photos that art editor Zenta Dzividzinska discovered while working with Jānis Kreicbergs’ photo archives.\nAll of his works contain motifs (in subject matter and formal qualities) that make them unmistakeably his next to the work of many of his contemporaries. One such motif is “style”, interpreted by Barthes as an “organised network of obsessions” (Kreicbergs’ network of ideas consists of spontaneity, freedom and sensuality).\nThere is also a thematic leitmotif: interpretation of the feminine image and individuality, shifting between the universal (sexuality) and the individual (personality).\u0026nbsp;Another important element is Kreicbergs’ photographic manner with its set of unique features, which combines the principles of snapshot and staged photography (a blend of elements from 1960s studio photography, from so-called street photography, press and report photography, as well as fashion and advertising photo stylistics).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese subjective qualities along with the ever-present historically documentary aspect make Kreicbergs’ selected works a unique value within the context of European and Latvian photographic art history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":627540593,"sku":"","price":7.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/Kreicbergs_shopify.JPG?v=1395230229"},{"product_id":"spanu-dzejas-antologija","title":"Anthology of 20th Century Spanish Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003e Anthology of 20th century Spanish poetry is the first voluminous selection of Spanish poetry in Latvian, comprising poems by 33 Spanish poets. Compiler, translator and the author of the afterword is Leons Briedis; the book includes translations also by Knuts Skujenieks and Egils Plaudis. Artist Ilmārs Blumbergs, especially for this book has created a series of drawings inspired by Spain and Spanish poetry.\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n„Spanish blood must be running through my veins, and this book is my belated declaration of love to Spanish culture. This love, the dream about Spanish culture started as early as in my adolescence and I am not disappointed with this dream up until now,” says Leons Briedis \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/spanu-atverums_wordpress.jpg?v=1570884859\"\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Poetry is still the most beautiful and essential place for us, different nations, to meet and understand each other. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ccite\u003eLeons Briedis\u003c\/cite\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/antologija_atverums.jpg?v=1570884918\"\u003e","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":645322577,"sku":"","price":12.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/spanu-vaks_shopify.jpg?v=1395922060"},{"product_id":"japanu-modinataja-sonakts","title":"Tonight of Japanese alarm","description":"\u003cp\u003ePoetry of Ģirts Koknēvičs is his direct speech with the world and about the world. True and full of love. The poetry not influenced by modern currents, tendencies and winds of fashion. The poetry that the author himself has turned into songs.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":669887841,"sku":"","price":1.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/Koknevics_shopify.jpg?v=1396872562"},{"product_id":"jekabs-kazaks","title":"Jēkabs Kazaks","description":"\u003cp\u003eJēkabs Kazaks – a Latvian painter possessing a unique talent for painting and drawing, expressing his free and analytical thinking also as an art theoretician – lived for a very brief time – he died at the age of 25 (1895-1920).\nHis artistic legacy is one of the most vivid phenomena in the painting of Latvian Classical Modernism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe young artist’s search for self-expression is connected with the turbulent events of that age: the Revolution of 1905 and the First World War, the German and Bolshevik occupation, and the birth of Latvia as an independent country. Kazaks’ paintings and drawings mirror the drama of these events: the tragedy of the refugees and the heroic mission of the Latvian Riflemen. At the same time, the heightened expression of his self-portraits serves to mark the unique value of the individual as one small part of the Universe, the personal struggle for physical existence and creative independence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe monograph is supplemented with the catalogue of Jēkabs Kazaks' works, a list of exhibitions, selected bibliography, index of names and an English summary.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":669910797,"sku":"","price":12.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/Kazaks_shopify.JPG?v=1396873890"},{"product_id":"juris-baklans-un-vija-maldupe","title":"Juris Baklāns and Vija Maldupe","description":"\u003cp\u003eDouble portrait of painters couple whose artistic heritage is still to be assessed by contemporary art historians.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is so easy in the age of global information exchange to look at some local phenomenon – say, the painting of Vija Maldupe or Juris Baklāns –, accuse it of being an anachronism, or unoriginal, and file it among the background events against which some “more contemporary” trends may shine. But it should be remembered that in the 1970s and the first half of the 1980s it was figural, more or less realistic painting that was considered worthy among both artists and art critics, and to an even greater extent, also in the general public opinion. Due to their expressions of compositional and colouristic effects and content specifics, in the opinion of their contemporaries, now a retrospective view, Vija Maldupe’s and Juris Baklāns’s works were like keystones that hold together a complex building – an arch, for example. Their painting echoes the pictorial liberation of their teachers’ generation – people of the “Soviet thaw” – and holds a premonition of the following generation’s manifold ways of playing with painting as a medium.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ccite\u003ePēteris Bankovskis\u003c\/cite\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":669929925,"sku":"","price":2.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/Baklans-Maldupe_shopify.jpg?v=1396875355"},{"product_id":"karlis-brencens","title":"Kārlis Brencēns","description":"\u003cp\u003eA monograph on the master of watercolour, stained glass, researcher of painting techniques and art teacher Kārlis Brencēns. Until now information on this significant personality in the Latvian art of the first half of the 20th century was to be found only in encyclopaedias, periodicals and separate catalogues of his exhibitions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe compiler of the monograph Marita Bērziņa has included an analysis of Brencēns' creative heritage, biography and full catalogue of his works. The book includes large number of reproductions of the artist's works and documentary photographs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zRXWvqcBw0s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/figure\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":669947341,"sku":"","price":9.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/Brencens_shopify.JPG?v=1396877068"},{"product_id":"kenotafs","title":"Kenotafs","description":"\u003cp\u003eA novel by one of the most outstanding Lithuanian prose writers Romualdas Granauskas (1939–2014)\u0026nbsp;is featuring a mysterious love and life story of the teacher D. against the background of the tragic postwar period. Profound depiction of the protagonists' destinies, the truth of life, and a live flow of the author's language is the material on which the symbolic monument - kenotaf - is built.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book includes also a short story \"Ar taureni uz lūpām\" (\"With a butterfly on lips\").\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":669965221,"sku":"","price":1.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/Granausks_shopify.jpg?v=1396877905"},{"product_id":"leonids-arins","title":"Leonīds Āriņš. Paintins, Drawings, Diaries","description":"\u003cp\u003eLeonīds Āriņš was a painter, a draughtsman, founder of a museum and expander of its collections; teacher, observer and assessor. No single-word description will do.\nĀriņš’ manner of painting, has always been independent. He was guided only by his own feelings, in no way echoing any official views or artistic standards.\nHolding on to his independent thinking and free creative spirit, the artist worked in spite of the incomprehension he received from the public.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 1924 onwards Āriņš kept a diary, which in the entry for 15 March 1932 he calls “bookkeeping of life’s lessons, experiences and thoughts”. The terse, laconic, at times poetically charged sentences or just strings of words create an impression of an irretrievably bygone time, which still had to be acknowledged.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArt historian Gundega Cēbere has based her survey on Leonīds Āriņš and his oeuvre on these diaries which have captured and preserved things that have been found most important subjectively but are also a vivid testimony of the age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book has been supplemented with colour reproductions of Āriņš’ paintings and drawings.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":672407549,"sku":"","price":4.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/Arins_shopify.JPG?v=1396963278"},{"product_id":"strannije-pari-na-beregu-ostsee","title":"Strannije pari na beregu Ostsee","description":"\u003cp\u003eSergejs Moreino ir viens no pazīstamākajiem krievu valodā rakstošajiem laikmetīgās dzejas meistariem un atdzejotājiem un viens no “Orbītas” grupas dzejniekiem.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSergeja Moreino dzejas princips ir pakļaut lokālās formālās konstrukcijas — pantmēru, ritmu, fonētiku — kopējam ritmam. Tādējādi pāreja no ritmizētas dzejas uz balto pantu, no tuvplāna uz kopējo plānu, no metaforas uz ironiju viņa dzejā kļūst netverama, padarot to līdzīgu dziļi izjustas domas plūsmai.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBilingvālajā krājumā iekļauti autora oriģināldzejoļi krievu valodā, Amandas Aizpurietes, Ulža Bērziņa un Jāņa Rokpeļņa dzejoļi autora atdzejojumā, kā arī Sergeja Moreino poēma “Atbilžu nasta” Amandas Aizpurietes atdzejojumā.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":672493957,"sku":"","price":1.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/Moreino_shopify.jpg?v=1396967334"},{"product_id":"skola","title":"The School","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe book comprises a rich material on Janis Rozentāls Riga Upper Secondary Art School, its place and role in the context of Latvian art and art education, beginning with its foundation in the 19th century as an evening school for drawing and sign painting, till present day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe school’s history is reflected in seven chapters, including pupils’ study works; the book is supplemented with an English summary and lists of the school’s directors and alumni.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":672613569,"sku":"","price":5.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/Skola_shopify.JPG?v=1396971216"},{"product_id":"uz-musu-nemierigas-planetas","title":"… on our restless planet","description":"\u003cp\u003e Collection of writings of the 20th century Latvian painter and art theoretician Ojārs Ābols illustrated by reproductions of his most significant paintings, provides an insight into the processes that took place in the second half of the 20th century Latvian culture.\nĀbols’ essays reveal a surprising forethought and deep concern about global destiny. His works are a paradoxical testimony to the existence of modern art in a situation of a restrictive political regime. A publication that causes amazement and stimulates thinking.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":730429305,"sku":"","price":2.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/Ojars-Abols_shopify.JPG?v=1399458346"},{"product_id":"ivars-poikans","title":"Ivars Poikāns. Time Makes no Difference","description":"\u003cp\u003e Ivars Poikāns (b. 1952) belongs to those enfants terribles of Latvian art who every now and then emerge in almost every generation of artists. The book includes the essay by art historian Inga Bunkše about “Poikāns’ phenomenon” in Latvian art along with the artist’s narrative about the impulses that give him inspiration for creation, as well as a selection of his works.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/Poikans_atv.jpg?v=1570731561\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Just like a plot of a novel is driven by conflicts, the development of society cannot happen without complications, disagreement and collisions. With his intuition and extensive knowledge, Poikāns can readily identify weak spots in human behaviour, in society and in the system, which he re-creates in his work. He is one of the rare Latvian artists whose works relate to what is going on in the real space and time, thus deliberately provoking the public. At the same time Poikāns reminds, that life is too serious to be lived without irony. His irony has a therapeutic function, it blows up the surrounding system. The answers to how the popular artist, whose work always provoke contradicting opinions, does it are provided in the book,” says Inga Bunkše.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"I have a tendency to always oppose everything. I call it IRM – the individual resistance movement.\" (Ivars Poikāns)  In Latvian it is IPK which can also be translated as Ivars Poikāns’ movement.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":899022549,"sku":"","price":12.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/Poikans_sh.jpg?v=1408094097"},{"product_id":"gotharda-fridriha-stendera-abeces","title":"Gotthard Friedrich Stender’s facsimile edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eTo mark the tercentenary of the birth of Gotthard Friedrich Stender (1714–1796), a set of three books has been published, comprising two facsimiles of ABC written by Stenders in the late 18th century: \u003cem\u003eJauna ABC un lasīšanas mācība\u003c\/em\u003e (New ABC and Teaching of Reading) and \u003cem\u003eBildu ābice\u003c\/em\u003e (ABC in Pictures), as well as a supplement including transcription of both ABC’s texts and documentary essays.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/stenders_atv2.jpg?v=1570646003\" alt=\"Gothards Fridrihs Stenders\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe life and personality of Stenders was an outstanding example for the 18th century European science and culture where a witty mind and proficiency were valued as the highest adornment of a man.\nTraditionally Stenders was known as a populariser of natural sciences, founder of a special era in the history of Latvian writing and an authority in Latvian linguistics. Stenders was interested also in measuring distance at sea; he was carried away with alchemical experiments; he made globes and popularised washing machine.\nDuring the later part of his life Stenders created two innovative textbooks: \u003cem\u003eJauna ABC un lasīšanas mācība\u003c\/em\u003e (1782) and \u003cem\u003eBildu ābice\u003c\/em\u003e (1787). His aim was to reduce illiteracy among Latvians. \u003cem\u003eBildu ābice\u003c\/em\u003e is, in fact, the first real example of the Latvian secular book design.\nOnly 3 copies have survived till nowadays of the first edition of \u003cem\u003eJauna ABC un lasīšanas mācība\u003c\/em\u003e, and 7 copies of \u003cem\u003eBildu ābice\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e150 sets of books have numbered copies of \u003cem\u003eBildu ābice\u003c\/em\u003e. Each of these copies has pictures glued in manually.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":947737657,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/stenders_sh_2963593c-713a-469f-a595-672fcad36e98.jpg?v=1411029259"},{"product_id":"kristians-brekte","title":"Kristians Brekte","description":"\u003cp\u003eKristians Brekte became known on the Latvian contemporary art scene more than a decade ago, when he was branded a hooligan. “(…) boldly and as if with a scalpel, Brekte always ‘cuts’ the exhibition visitor a little. So that it smarts slightly, and you don’t understand whether it’s a good or a bad thing, and even get a little angry,” wrote Anna Iltnere, editor of the web portal \u003cem\u003eArterritory.com\u003c\/em\u003e. This is the first catalogue comprising the artist’s works that have been created until now.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":971240588,"sku":"","price":10.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/brekte_sh.jpg?v=1412707136"},{"product_id":"portrets-latvija-19-gadsimts","title":"Portrait in Latvia. 19th Century","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 2008, the exhibition “19th Century Portrait in Latvia”, which culminated in one of the largest and longest-running projects of its kind – a series of exhibitions dedicated to Latvian portrait art that spanned three centuries – was opened in Rundāle Palace Museum.\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book “Portrait in Latvia. 19th Century” includes both the catalogue of the exhibition and a series of scholarly articles on the portrait genre.\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe catalogue section of this book includes 565 portraits – the works that were on display at the exhibition, as well as some portraits selected for the exhibition but not displayed due to lack of space. The catalogue is organized according to the alphabet of the artists’ surnames, including short biographies of the artists. Each portrait is supplemented with background information as well as a brief biography of the depicted persons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/portrets_atverums.jpg?v=1570881008\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":972042144,"sku":"","price":30.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/portrets_sh.jpg?v=1412764559"},{"product_id":"konrads-ubans","title":"Konrāds Ubāns","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe series „Classics of Latvian Art” presents a book about one of the most prominent and creatively independent landscapists of the last century\u0026nbsp;Konrāds Ubāns (1893–1981).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRestrained and gentle in character, Konrāds Ubāns was actually a\nfanatically zealous\u0026nbsp;artist, who devoted the whole of his long life to plein-air painting and would\u0026nbsp;spend long hours at the easel, from early morning until the last rays of the evening\u0026nbsp;sun.\nHe would become completely absorbed in the richness of the natural setting,\u0026nbsp;as reflected in the exquisite colour nuances of his lyrical paintings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe series „Classics of Latvian Art”\u0026nbsp;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":1025327160,"sku":"","price":9.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/LMK-Ubaans_sh.jpg?v=1416586144"},{"product_id":"latvijas-makslas-vesture-iv","title":"Art History of Latvia IV (Latvian edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003eInitiating a multi-volume edition “Art History of Latvia”, the Institute of Art History has published the volume “Period of Neo-Romanticist Modernism: 1890–1915” in separate Latvian and English versions, edited by Director of the Institute, Prof. Eduards Kļaviņš. Himself the author of chapters on Historiography, Historical Background and Fine Arts, the general editor co-operated with Kristiāna Ābele (Artistic Life), Silvija Grosa (Architecture, Applied Art and Design) and Valdis Villerušs (Book Design).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1040675496,"sku":"","price":49.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/MVesture-2_sh_lv.jpg?v=1417529319"},{"product_id":"art-history-of-latvia","title":"Art History of Latvia IV","description":"\u003cp\u003eInitiating a multi-volume edition “Art History of Latvia”, the Institute of Art History has published the volume “Period of Neo-Romanticist Modernism: 1890–1915” in separate Latvian and English versions, edited by Director of the Institute, Prof. Eduards Kļaviņš. Himself the author of chapters on Historiography, Historical Background and Fine Arts, the general editor co-operated with Kristiāna Ābele (Artistic Life), Silvija Grosa (Architecture, Applied Art and Design) and Valdis Villerušs (Book Design).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1043387244,"sku":"","price":49.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/MVesture1_sh_eng.jpg?v=1417697021"},{"product_id":"janis-liepins","title":"Jānis Liepiņš","description":"\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDemocratic subject matter, most commonly the everyday life of fishermen and peasants, scenes from the market and the inn, and a tonally rich and expressive mode of painting – these are the defining characteristics of Jānis Liepiņš as an artist, which have ensured him an abiding place in the panorama of 1920s and 30s Latvian painting\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ccite\u003eSigita Daugule\u003c\/cite\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003eThe series „Classics of Latvian Art” includes books of medium size, offering an easily perceptible information about Latvian classical artists and their works. Similar to the „STUDIJA Library” the series „Classics of Latvian Art” 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.","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1142093324,"sku":"","price":9.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/Janis-Liepins_sh.jpg?v=1423039822"},{"product_id":"paulis-liepa","title":"Paulis Liepa","description":"\u003cp\u003ePaulis Liepa (b. 1978) is one of the most well-known Latvian graphic artists with a vivid and recognizable individual style. Art historian and curator Līga Lindenbauma, the author of the book, has analysed the creative work of Paulis Liepa, drawing parallels between the artist’s studio and the realm of objects depicted in his prints.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLife is not\u0026nbsp;a story about reaching the destination, but about the journey itself, the\u0026nbsp;process.\u0026nbsp;The great thing about “Project ‘Life’” is that I can do anything\u0026nbsp;whatsoever, but, amazingly, it all goes together. This is a very individual\u0026nbsp;kind of romanticism, a world influenced by details, by momentary\u0026nbsp;impressions. A tear-off calendar that has been torn away up to a particular\u0026nbsp;date, so that it concentrates history up to the next page not yet torn\u0026nbsp;off. The truth is that any person’s life story is 100 times more valuable\u0026nbsp;and profound than the most refined fictional plot. The works, too, are\u0026nbsp;seemingly about small things, but they’re also about the capacity for\u0026nbsp;small things to become concentrated. Insignificant details may be\u0026nbsp;summed and can have equal weight with much more important things.\u0026nbsp;Tea leaves swirling in a cup, or sunlight sliding across the windowsill are\u0026nbsp;just as timeless and endless as they are physical and momentary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ccite\u003ePaulis Liepa\u003c\/cite\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/Paulis_Liepa_atverums2.jpg?v=1570873797\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaulis Liepa has studied graphic art at the Art Academy of Latvia. In his work he mainly exploits the techniques of colography and cardboard print. Paulis has regularly participated in print exhibitions, has held several solo shows. He has received significant awards, among them Award of the Year in Culture of the newspaper \u003cem\u003eDiena\u003c\/em\u003e (2013), Grand Prix at the print exhibition “Grafika-S” (2014), Grand Prix at the International Graphic Art Biennial of the Baltic Sea Countries in Kaliningrad, Russia (2008), prize at the International Graphic Art Triennial in Cracow, Poland (2012) etc. The artist’s works are held in private collections as well as in the collection of the future Latvian Contemporary Art Museum. In parallel to prints Paulis Liepa works in book design, illustrations and animations.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/Paulis_Liepa_atverums.jpg?v=1570873824\"\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. Each book includes a basic text, an interview, a selection of images as well as full translation into English. The first book of the series was published in 2008.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1153806876,"sku":"","price":5.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/Paulis_Liepa_sh.jpg?v=1423567945"},{"product_id":"monika-1","title":"Monika","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe book in the series \"Studija library\"\u0026nbsp;about the set designer and artist Monika Pormale.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePormale arrived on the Latvian art scene in the late 1990s with her installations, photographs and videos. Pormale’s work became known in the world through her collaboration with director Alvis Hermanis. She has accompanied productions by the New Riga Theatre in Europe, Russia, America and Asia. Monika has also designed productions at the Schauspiel Frankfurt, the Ruhrtriennale, the Moscow Theatre of Nations, the Schauspiel Köln, the Vienna Burgtheater and the Münchner Kammerspiele.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMonika’s best-known work is her set for ‘Long life’ – a cross-section of the lives of Latvian pensioners who inhabit a shared flat. This is an explosion of hundreds of objects that have accumulated over a long time. In the nineties, Ilya Kabakov, the Moscow conceptualist working in New York, created political installations that made him one of the most effective guides to the labyrinths of Soviet life, but Monika Pormale has applied the material heritage of that same period in spheres other than social polemics and the critique of regimes. She has used it to\u0026nbsp;explore the existential poetry of the private, personal space of life. Up to the autumn of 2009, ‘Long Life’ has been shown in twenty-six countries in Europe, Asia and America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ccite\u003eMargarita Zieda\u003c\/cite\u003e\n\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. Each book includes a basic text, an interview, a selection of images as well as full translation into English. The first book of the series was published in 2008.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1245256960,"sku":"","price":4.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/Monika_shopify_4dcef448-9c5c-4123-b162-aa2980d2c094.jpg?v=1426590704"},{"product_id":"katrina-neiburga","title":"Katrīna Neiburga","description":"\u003cp\u003eA book about Katrīna Neiburga by the future art historian Elīna Sproģe is published in the series “Studija Library”.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI have been the founder of a tea mushroom growers’ association,\u0026nbsp;a taxi driver, documentary cinematographer, singer, stage designer, shoe\u0026nbsp;saleswoman, and I’ve never been bored. Yet for some reason people call\u0026nbsp;me an artist. This time I’ ll try to embrace this role.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ccite\u003eKatrīna Neiburga\u003c\/cite\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/neiburga_atverums2.jpg?v=1570734668\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKatrīna Neiburga (1978) is one of the most outstanding artists of Latvian contemporary art. She has received several significant awards (among them the \u003cem\u003ePurvītis Prize\u003c\/em\u003e – the premier Latvian national art award) and nominations, and has participated in exhibitions in Europe and elsewhere in the world. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKatrīna Neiburga’s art is driven by a yearning for emotion, realness and the preservation of living memory.\nIt is poetry that operates at the level of perception and feeling – bared, imbued with truth, soulful and beautiful. One of Katrīna’s chief means of expression is a deeply personal iconography: it is ever present in her video installations shown in exhibition halls as well as\u0026nbsp;on stage.\nA constant feature of the artist’s works is an inexhaustible ability and wish to delve beneath\u0026nbsp;the surface, pinning down the common or timeless elements in people’s relationships, and also\u0026nbsp;in their attitude to the past and towards themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ccite\u003eElīna Sproģe\u003c\/cite\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/neiburga_atverums1.jpg?v=1570734694\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\n\u003c\/p\u003e\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. Each book includes a basic text, an interview, a selection of images as well as full translation into English. The first book of the series was published in 2008.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1703581764,"sku":"","price":5.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/neiburga_sh.jpg?v=1431326008"},{"product_id":"kirkes-gramata-kirkes-book","title":"Kirkes grāmata \/ Kirke's Book","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Kirkes grāmata \/ Kirke’s Book\" is a long term collaborative project by artist Frančeska Kirke, art historian Anita Vanaga and designer of the book Anna Aizsilniece.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e A hundred years. Three generations in art between wars and powers. Each of them adding their own part of puzzle to the ‘Kirke’s Book’. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ccite\u003eFrančeska Kirke\u003c\/cite\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the launching party of the book, the author of the text Anita Vanaga, said: „’Kirke’s Book’ is about play, about relationship between weak and strong people, high and low culture, between different historic images, including three generations of artists in the family. The book tells about the art of Francisks Varslavāns, Večella Varslavāne, Gunārs Kirke and Frančeska Kirke.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlongside the text by Anita Vanaga the ‘Kirke’s Book’ includes a conceptual selection of photos from museums, the family’s and other archives. The album part of the book includes a selection of\nmore than 100 reproductions of Frančeska Kirke’s works held in museums and private collections.\u0026nbsp;Thus the book provides a unique possibility to view the works which are otherwise not possible to see all together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book is supplemented with bibliography and index of persons. The text is both in Latvian and English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1749459716,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/Kirke_sh.jpg?v=1431519842"},{"product_id":"miervaldis-polis","title":"Miervaldis Polis","description":"\u003cp\u003e Painter, performance artist, founder and the only member of the organization Egocentrs, deft player of \u003cem\u003eZolīte\u003c\/em\u003e card game, a mushroom expert, sculptor, installation artist, amateur of art history and theory, recently he has become widely known as a “court painter”. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis talents and interests are limitless, and this book is probably the first attempt to solve the riddle named Miervaldis Polis\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ccite\u003eAmy Bryzgel\u003c\/cite\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/Miervaldis_Polis_layout.jpg?v=1570869834\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e But first of all Polis is a professional painter. In the 1970s, together with Līga Purmale, then his wife, he exhibited the first paintings created in the style of Photorealism. Yet he did not confine himself to only one style – among his works are paintings of Academic Realism, the so called \u003cem\u003etrompe l’oeil\u003c\/em\u003e technique, as well as of Primitivist and Symbolist styles. In the 1980s the artist started experimenting with performance, creating his most popular image – the Bronze Man. The artist appeared in the streets of Riga dressed in bronze suit, hat and shoes, his face and hands also being covered with bronze paint. After Latvia’s regaining of independence, Miervaldis Polis continues painting, focusing mainly on the genre of portrait.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/Miervaldis_Polis_layout_II.jpg?v=1570869865\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Dr. Amy Bryzgel is an American art historian, a lecturer in History of Art at the University of Aberdeen (Scotland, UK); her speciality is modern and contemporary art of Central and Eastern Europe with a particular focus on performance art in the region. Amy became acquainted with works by Polis while working on her PhD dissertation at Rutgers University (USA) which is holding the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Soviet Nonconformist Art – the largest collection in the world of Soviet non-official art. It includes also art works of several artists from Latvia, among them 28 works by Miervaldis Polis. From 2003 up till 2009 Amy lived in Riga working on her PhD, which included artists from Russia, Poland and Latvia. Identifying a gap in the literature, she decided to continue her research on Polis and develop it into a monograph. This book is the result of ten years of research on the artist, which included numerous interviews with Polis himself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":2807857604,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/polis_sh.jpg?v=1433767332"},{"product_id":"voldemars-irbe","title":"Voldemārs Irbe","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe series \"Classics of Latvian Art\" presents a book about\u0026nbsp;legendary figure\u0026nbsp;of 1920s–30s Riga Voldemārs Irbe (1893–1944).\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVoldemārs \u0026nbsp;Irbe, popularly known as ‘Barefoot Irbīte’,\u0026nbsp;is an artist whose distinctive, inimitable mode of expression\u0026nbsp;introduced into art a naïve perception of the world, one that convincingly\u0026nbsp;conveyed his outlook.\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntuitively appreciating and applying the advantages\u0026nbsp;of pastel, he revealed the true potential and strengths of the medium,\u0026nbsp;demonstrating its unique character and its right to a place among other media\u0026nbsp;of painting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/irbe_atv2.jpg?v=1570889299\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVoldemārs Irbe’s original style and techniques emerged already in the early 20s,\u0026nbsp;and his skill with pastels developed over time, the techniques becoming more diverse\u0026nbsp;and complicated. In the paintings, his feelings and mental states correlate with\u0026nbsp;the stylised rhythms of the depiction, consisting of boldly coordinated areas of colour,\u0026nbsp;lines, hatching and vivid accents.\nAs his individual hand developed, the thematic range of Irbe’s work also diversified.\u0026nbsp;It included genre scenes, where he himself was present, scenes from nature\u0026nbsp;that he found attractive and flowers, which particularly delighted him. Irbe depicted\u0026nbsp;what he saw and what seemed worthy of attention: church services, inns, craftsmen’s\u0026nbsp;workshops, poor people’s hovels, the bustle of the market and the streets.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/irbe_atv1.jpg?v=1570889320\"\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. Similar to the \"STUDIJA Library\" the series \"Classics of Latvian Art\" 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":3664577861,"sku":"","price":9.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/irbe_sh.jpg?v=1436794162"},{"product_id":"andris-freibergs","title":"Andris Freibergs","description":"\u003cp\u003eA book by theatre specialist Margarita Zieda about scenographer Andris Freibergs. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe power of the book is its live nature – viva nature. Human imprint in everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ccite\u003eMargarita Zieda\u003c\/cite\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/AF_atverums1.jpg?v=1570384816\" alt=\"Andris Freibergs\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The book about Andris Freibergs is not an academic, theoretical research. It has evolved from conversations with Andris Freibergs and many practitioners in the theatre milieu, with whom Freibergs has collaborated – directors, set designers, light specialists as well as his contemporaries and students. Among them are  Ilmārs Blumbergs, Reinis Dzudzilo, Mihails Gruzdovs, Anna Heinrihsone, Alvis Hermanis, Māra Ķimele, Monika Pormale, Alla Sigalova, Reinis Suhanovs, Ādolfs Šapiro, Andrejs Žagars et al. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/AF_atverums2.jpg?v=1570384884\" alt=\"Andris Freibergs\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Unofficial name of the Latvian school of scenography, which has developed over the period of more than forty years, is the school of Andris Freibergs. Since 1994 Freibergs is the Head of the Department of Stage Design at the Art Academy of Latvia, where he has made his own team of teachers. At the \u003cem\u003ePrague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space\u003c\/em\u003e, the exhibition of the Art Academy of Latvia has won the Gold Medal for three successive years, while Andris Freibergs, after the third students’ Gold Medal, received the special \u003cem\u003eScenography Mentor Award\u003c\/em\u003e.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"video\"\u003e\u003cfigure\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1w5nZ6UE5H0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/figure\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":7602997637,"sku":"","price":15.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/AF_sh.jpg?v=1446034045"},{"product_id":"svesinieka-atnaksana","title":"Arrival of the Stranger","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe small detectives Theo and Button continue to investigate hidden secrets of artworks of the most well-known Latvian artists. This time it is Niklāvs Strunke and his painting “A Man who Enters the Room” that pull the detectives into the vortex of adventures.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/Sves_iinieks_atv2.jpg?v=1570885534\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor several weeks newspapers are reporting of a terror that has seized Rigans: a strange man in grey coat has appeared in the city, who goes through the walls of houses like a ghost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDetective Theo starts to investigate the case and meets the Grey Man face to face.\nFollowing the smell of dust and the call of the Grey Man “Čau!”, Theo with his partner Button and her fat dachshund Comma go into the streets of Riga to find out whether art can rally step out of the dust-covered painting frames and take a walk in the streets of today’s city. The art detectives will discover the secret of the Grey Man and will find out who introduced into Latvian the Italian greeting “Ciao!” (Čau!)\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/Sves_iinieks_atv1.jpg?v=1570885565\"\u003e\n\n","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":8377348613,"sku":"","price":10.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/Sves_iinieks_sh.jpg?v=1447325985"},{"product_id":"janis-kreslins-latviesu-tradicionalo-kulturas-vertibu-izzinatajs","title":"Jānis Krēsliņš - Researcher of Latvian Traditional Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe book \u003cem\u003eJānis Krēsliņš – Researcher of Latvian Traditional Culture\u003c\/em\u003e is devoted to the ethnographic and historical materials and art that were gathered together in the late 19th century by the Latvian artist, photographer, man of letters, social activist and enthusiastic collector of folklore and folk traditions, Jānis Krēsliņš (1865–? ). Total number of items held at The National History Museum of Latvia\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;is 376.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/Janis_Kreslins_atverums.jpg?v=1570732565\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll of Krēsliņš’ drawings and photographs came into being in 1894 and 1895, when he as a draughtsman took part in the Riga Latvian Society Science Commission expeditions to various regions of Latvia. The objective was to obtain materials for the First Latvian Ethnographic Exhibition which was being organised by the Riga Latvian Society and due to take place in 1896 during the Tenth All-Russian Archaeological Congress in Riga.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJānis Krēsliņš was one of the most active organisers of the exhibition. The materials that he gathered are a valuable source of reference when seeking to throw light on many cultural historical issues. For example, his drawings have preserved invaluable information about rural building types, their elements of construction, the spread of typological and constructive elements and their unique features in various historical ethnographic areas of 19th century Latvia, about the construction of heating devices, traditional clothing and much else. As a photographer, Jānis Krēsliņš with his expressive photographs can be ranked among the foremost pioneers of documentary photography of the late 19th century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/Kreslins_atverums_1.jpg?v=1570732617\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book is a compilation of all the drawings and photographs by Jānis Krēsliņš that the museum has in its possession. It must be especially emphasised that this has been a cooperative venture. The author of Chapter 1 – \u003cem\u003eThe drawings of Jānis Krēsliņš\u003c\/em\u003e – a resource in the research of Latvian traditional culture is the Chief Custodian of the Manuscript, Drawing, Photograph and Document Collection of the National History Museum of Latvia, Sanita Stinkule; the author of Chapter 2 – \u003cem\u003eThe photographs by Jānis Krēsliņš as a portrait of the Latvian people\u003c\/em\u003e is Associate Professor at the Latvian Academy of Art (Latgale Branch), Inta Pujāte, and finally, the author of Chapter 3 – \u003cem\u003eBiography of Jānis Krēsliņš\u003c\/em\u003e is Gunta Tuča, granddaughter of Georgs Krēsliņš (the brother of Jānis Krēsliņš) and also educational methodologist at the Ernsts Gliks State Gymnasium of Alūksne.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/Janis_Kreslins_atverums_2.jpg?v=1570732678\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"video\"\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l9uuUqL_2do?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/figure\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":8968837957,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/kreeslins_sh.jpg?v=1448368199"},{"product_id":"mitt-liv-med-arkitektur-design-och-innovationer","title":"Mitt liv. Med arkitektur, design och innovatione","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition in Swedish of the book by architect, designer, professor emeritus at Konstfack in\u0026nbsp;Stockholm\u0026nbsp;Andrejs Legzdiņš.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/Legzdins-atv-1.jpg?v=1570890511\"\u003e\n\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/Legzdins-atv-2.jpg?v=1570890563\"\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":9002555013,"sku":"","price":12.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/legzdins_sh.jpg?v=1448440200"},{"product_id":"janis-roberts-tillbergs","title":"Jānis Roberts Tillbergs","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeries \"Classics of Latvian Art\" presents a book about Jānis Roberts Tillbergs (1880–1972).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProfessor Jānis Roberts Tillbergs (1880–1972), who established the salon portrait and represents one of the major figures in 20th century Latvian art, is a very controversial figure. A convinced adept of Academic Realism, throughout his lifetime he was both praised and condemned in the name of various artistic interests. However, the portraits he painted of Latvian cultural figures, along with his work in other genres, his caricatures and his contribution to the development of Latvian caricature as such will remain as stable values in Latvian art\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ccite\u003eMāris Brancis\u003c\/cite\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/LMK-Tillbergs_atv.jpg?v=1570733155\"\u003e\n\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. Similar to the „STUDIJA Library” the series „Classics of Latvian Art” 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\n","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":9295607813,"sku":"","price":9.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/LMK-Tillbergs_sh.jpg?v=1449225244"},{"product_id":"maksla-un-latvijas-valsts-1918-1940-art-et-etat-en-lettonie","title":"Art and the Latvian State ","description":"\u003cp\u003e The book by art historian Ginta Gerharde-Upeniece is dedicated to the art life of the Republic of Latvia in the inter-war period (1918–1940).\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“It gives an insight into the time when the culture policy, how we understand it today, did not exist, but the criteria that were defined back then made the foundation on which the creative inspiration helped the nation to reach its maturity\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ccite\u003eGinta Gerharde-Upeniece\u003c\/cite\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/maksla_atv1.jpg?v=1570868483\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The book consists of two parts, each of them dealing with a separate period in the history of Latvia – the democratic (1918–1934) and the authoritarian (1934–1940). The book contains rich documental material – photographs, copies of documents as well as reproductions of works of art. A special spread shows ceiling pieces of the Festive Hall of the Riga Castle. The book has a supplement comprising copies of significant documents relating to proclamation of the Republic of Latvia, Ministry of Education of the Republic of Latvia, Culture Foundation, Art Academy of Latvia, State Museum of Art, state commissions and foreign culture policy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/maksla_atv2.jpg?v=1570868521\"\u003e\n\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/maksla_atv4.jpg?v=1570868590\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Ginta Gerharde-Upeniece is art historian, head of the Latvian Visual Arts Department at the Latvian National Museum of Art. Major exhibition projects: Mark Rothko’s centennial exhibition; coordination of exhibitions within the frame of French-Latvian Festival “Surprising Latvia” and “French Spring 2007”; curator of the project “1914” as part of the Riga European Capital of Culture 2014 programme. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"video\"\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KtCftJrUTHo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/figure\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":10504352325,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/maksla_sh.jpg?v=1453891826"},{"product_id":"krekls","title":"The Shirt","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eKrekls\u003c\/em\u003e (The Shirt) is the third collection of poetry by Ruta Štelmahere. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eArtist and poetess Ruta Štelmahere (1965) has published her poems since 1983. She has the following collections: \u003cem\u003eIeskaties sēklai acīs\u003c\/em\u003e (Look into the Seed’s Eyes, 1998) and \u003cem\u003eKlēpis\u003c\/em\u003e (Lap, 2011, with the author’s illustrations). The latter brought its author the Award of the Year in Literature. Ruta Štelmahere has graduated from the Art Academy of Latvia and works as teacher at Jēkabpils Art School.\n\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":10923109317,"sku":"","price":1.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/Stelmahere_Krekls_sh.jpg?v=1454933229"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.neputns.lv\/en\/collections\/all-categories.oembed?page=3","provider":"Neputns","version":"1.0","type":"link"}