Neputns publishes essays by exiled cultural worker Andrejs Johansons
In the series of essays outstanding writers, thinkers, essayists have beem published since 2013, and finally Latvian essayist, cultural historian and scientist Andrejs Johansons (1922–1983) has accompanied Lorca, Benjamin, Nietzsche, Undusk, Malaparte and other thinkers. Johanson's selection of essays selected by his son Paul Johanson marks the author's 100th anniversary. The edition includes essays written between 1953 and 1962 and published in five essay books: Smoky Lights, Horseshoe Down, Leopard Skin, and Wind Knots. One is published by the publishing house grāmatu draugs in the USA and the others by the Daugava publishing house in Stockholm. After the restoration of Latvia's independence, the publishing house was moved to Riga, where most of the essays were reprinted.
Series artist Anna Aizsilniece
Compiled by Paul Johansson
Editor Raimonds Ķirķis
The book is supported by the State Cultural Capital Fund
Monograph about Voldemārs Zeltiņš
In December, Kristiāna Ābele's monograph about the painter Voldemārs Zeltiņš is also expected to be released at the Neputns publishing house.
Kristiāna Ābele: "After everything that has been revealed about Zeltiņš's life and seen in his works, there are grounds for more agreement with Bēm's and Biete's views. In the painter's controversial struggle with life, tension of concentration of creative forces that was devoted to the art, whose embodiments in the emotional rhythms on canvas, cardboard or paper are not the prevailing mood."
Design and layout: Armands Zelčs.
The publication of the monograph is supported by the State Cultural Capital Fund
Czesław Miłosz in the velvet poetry series
In December, the publishing house Neputns is expected to publish a collection of poems by Czesław Miłosz in the velvet poetry series.
Ingmāra Balode: "Weight of poet's words in the eyes of the public are also given by external decorations, awards, which the author of this book is not lacking especially in the second half of his life; as you know, fame tends to bring creative slack or fatigue, but not to this poet. In 1980, Czesław Miłosz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his work, in which the vulnerability of man in a world of irreconcilable conflict is revealed through uncompromising ambition"."
Editor of the collection - Jānis Elsbergs, translators - Ingmāra Balode, Uldis Bērziņš, Hermanis Marģers Majevskis, Māris Salējs. Design: Anna Aizsilniece.
Supported by the State Culture Capital Foundation.
The Source of Youth. Aija Jurjāne
"On Aija's table, there was her daughter Ieva's painted porcelain vase – her own vases that she painted created in Zvārtava porcelain symposium had already been given away. Aija's paintings were stored in a mid-floor kind of shelf/gallery where one could climb up on using Swedish gymnastics wall, and there had never been much, because compositions for the thematic or seasonal exhibitions of Soviet time had arrived as purchases in the stocks of the Latvian National Museum of Art and the Latvian Museum of Artists' Union, while the portraits Aija gave to those who appeared in them. Aija liked to give." (Anita Vanaga)
Compiler and project manager – Sandra Krastiņa, design – Artis Briedis, Rūta Briede, text authors – Anita Vanaga, Sandra Krastiņa, Rasa Jansone, Dace Lamberga, Anna Auziņa, Reinis Dzudzilo, Barbara Gaile, Edgars Vērpe, Aija Jurjāne, Ieva Jurjāne.
The book “The Source of Youth. Aija Jurjāne” will be published with the support of the State Culture Capital Fund's target programme “KultūrELPA”.
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