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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":"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. 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In this respect, the aim of protecting\u0026nbsp;architectural monuments is to preserve a building as a historically\u0026nbsp;and artistically valuable object. However, this objective is not simple,\u0026nbsp;because the understanding of the criteria that define a monument’s\u0026nbsp;value changes with time,” says the author Mārtiņš Mintaurs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/Mintaurs_atv1.jpg?v=1570386280\" alt=\"Arhitektūras mantojums\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Until now, the history of the conservation of architectural monuments\u0026nbsp;in Latvia’s historiography has been studied only fragmentarily.\u0026nbsp;In studies devoted to the history of Latvia’s architecture the reconstruction\u0026nbsp;or renovation of historical buildings has been mentioned\u0026nbsp;merely as a branch of architecture. 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It became the first and largest representation of the Latvian nation and its history, culture and achievements, in addition it was an explicit application of the Latvian nation to be located alongside other nations in terms of historical and language values, national culture achievements, economic efforts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe books has been prepared in cooperation with the National History Museum of Latvia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/folklora_atv1.jpg?v=1570354641\" alt=\"Latviešu etnogrāfiskā izstāde\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn order to speak of a nation, there needs to be a community of people with their own territory, a name they call themselves and language, cultural elements and memories of the past that are particular only to them, and a consciousness of their being a united whole. Several of the features mentioned that characterise the Latvian nation (territory, language, culture) took shape in the Middle Ages and at the first stages of the Early Modern Period. National consciousness, on the other hand, Latvian people becoming aware of themselves as a nation, was a later phenomenon. It was precisely during the 19th century that, influenced by socioeconomic processes and internal political affairs, the path of the Latvian people towards consolidation was finished and the creation of nationhood began. One of the seminal events that formed part of this process that is of interest to us was the preparatory work and proceedings of the Latvian Ethnographic Exhibition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ccite\u003eLNVM direktors Arnis Radiņš\u003c\/cite\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/folklora_atv5.jpg?v=1570354693\" alt=\"Latviešu etnogrāfiskā izstāde\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the first part there are three texts\u0026nbsp;prepared by specialists of the National History Museum of Latvia.\u0026nbsp;The author of the first text ‘The Latvian Ethnographic Exhibition\u0026nbsp;of 1896 — Witness to an Era’ is the Head of the Department of\u0026nbsp;Medieval, Modern and Contemporary History, Dr. hist. 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A Portrait of an Era Through Keepsake Album Images From the End of the 18th to the First Half of the 19th Century” in its original form is a collection of unrelated and un-ordered images, yet linked by a common provenance – the legacy of one particular family. This catalogue has been arranged in accordance with the usual principles of keepsake album editing, placing the images in a chronological order that best reflects the passage of time. The compilers of this album have made small deviations from the chronological order to highlight the contribution of one particular artist, or works that could possibly be attributed to him or her by assembling such works together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/KA_atv3.jpg?v=1570811906\"\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Courland Album is a testament to the transmission of ideas and images, to communications with the intercedence of images. 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This was the first step in the triumphant but far from easy journey by \u003cem\u003eBaltars\u003c\/em\u003e to exhibitions at home and abroad, in Lithuania, Estonia, Sweden, Czechoslovakia and Norway.\" (Dace Ļaviņa)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/Baltars_atv1_c30f60c7-69bb-45b0-a4a7-e2cb7c60b9f4.jpg?v=1574236867\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book includes studies by art experts Dace Ļaviņa, Irēna Bužinska, Ilze Martinsone and Jeremy Howard (UK).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNeputns\u003c\/em\u003e has published two seperate editions - in Latvian and in English.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/Baltars_atv3.jpg?v=1574236768\"\u003e","brand":"Neputns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31274700963892,"sku":"","price":30.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/products\/baltars-apvaaks-www.jpg?v=1574243467"},{"product_id":"baltars-anglu-valoda","title":"Baltars (English edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBaltars\u003c\/em\u003e edition in English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book \u003cem\u003eBaltars\u003c\/em\u003e is the most extensive study to date on an outstanding phenomenon in the early 20th century - the porcelain producing and popularising enterprise \u003cem\u003eBaltars\u003c\/em\u003e (1924-1931), which is included in the Cultural Canon of Latvia and is enjoying increasing recognition around the world. This publication aims to provide a more detailed appraisal of how many items made by the \u003cem\u003eBaltars\u003c\/em\u003e workshop have survived to the present day and where they are located.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBaltars arrived on the Latvian art scene unexpectedly, like a comet which follows a straight trajectory before burning up, leaving behind a brilliant sky trail in our memories. In gathering this “star dust” – porcelain items made by Suta, Beļcova and Vidbergs – the authors of the essays published here have sought to present a broader view of the workshop’s creative legacy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ccite\u003eDace Ļaviņa\u003c\/cite\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/Baltars_atv3.jpg?v=1574236768\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The founders of Baltars, Romans Suta, Aleksandra Beļcova and Sigismunds Vidbergs, were three radically different artistic personalities who nevertheless represented newly independent Latvia in the world of decorative art convincingly, elegantly and subtly. This is affirmed by the glowing review earned by their painted porcelain ware displayed at the 1925 International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts in Paris. 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Unlike in most interpretations of Riga’s buildings, this book deals with its close-ups – the architectural décor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/Juugendstils_atv2.jpg?v=1576009490\"\u003e\n\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe ambivalence of the material, involving crafts, industrial production and professional art focused on creating unique artefacts, as well as the lack of available documentary facts, has influenced the assessment of the décor both at the time when the relevant buildings were being erected and in the subsequent decades. It is complicated to judge the subordination of architects, designers and clients, particularly when it comes to the architecture of apartment buildings which were most commonly designed in the Art Nouveau style. Irrespective of the evaluative aspects, however, the scope of the phenomenon is so vast that without its comprehensive and well- grounded interpretation not only the architecture in Latvia from the late 19th and early 20th century but also overall history of visual plastic arts of the age and place simply cannot be understood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ccite\u003eSilvija Grosa\u003c\/cite\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/Juugendstils_atv1.jpg?v=1576009021\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe goal of the book is to conduct stylistic analysis of the décor of stone buildings that were erected in Riga at the turn of the 20th century. While the focus is on \u003cem\u003eArt Nouveau\u003c\/em\u003e, the author has also taken into account other types of styles which existed in parallel to it during the stated period of time. 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The territory of the former Saldus and Tukums Districts, covered in this book, nowadays corresponds to the municipalities of Tukums, Kandava, Jaunpils, Engure, Saldus and Brocēni. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/Sakr-Saldus-Tuk-atv-1.jpg?v=1592455835\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe oldest heritage of religious architecture in the territory of the former Tukums and Saldus Districts relates to the Lutheran churches built in the Duchy of Courland in the late 16th and the 17th century. Mannerist religious art in the Tukums and Saldus areas is represented by a number of notable examples of woodcarving, which, in spite of terrible damage in the Second World War and the second half of the 20th cen- tury, have been preserved in the churches or saved in museums. Even richer is the heritage of Baroque sculpture, which is connected mainly with the work of the masters of the Ventspils woodcarving workshop, Nicolaus Söffrens the Younger (1662–1710) and Johann Märtens (1690– 1737). A major collection of Baroque painting, significant in the history of Latvian art, is preserved in Gaiķi Lutheran Church. No less significant is the collection of paintings from Vāne Church, preserved in Rundāle Palace Museum.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/Sakr-Saldus-Tuk-atv-3.jpg?v=1592455921\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume includes descriptions of 35 churches. 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The writings are complemented by visual materials arranged in a separate notebook, which gives the contemporary reader the opportunity to view both the publications in which Skulme’s articles were published and the works of art about which he wrote. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/Uga-Skulme-raksti_mazs.jpg?v=1593543731\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0309\/1401\/files\/Uga-Skulme-ilustr-atv-1.jpg?v=1593544189\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUga Skulme was not only a painter and graphic artist, but also an art critic who expressed the views of the Classical Modernist generation, to which he himself belonged, on art. 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