Download or read book State Construction and Art in East Central Europe 1918 2018 written by Agnieszka Chmielewska and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-19 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a comprehensive perspective on the relationship between the art scene and agencies of the state in countries of the region, throughout four consecutive yet highly diverse historical periods: from the period of state integration after World War I, through the communist era post 1945 and the time of political transformation after 1989, to the present-day globalisation (including counter-reactions to westernisation and cultural homogenisation). With twenty-three theoretically and/or empirically oriented articles by authors from sixteen countries (East Central Europe and beyond, including the United States and Australia), the book discusses interconnections between state policies and artistic institutions, trends and the art market from diverse research perspectives. The contributors explore subjects such as the impact of war on the formation of national identities, the role of artists in image-building for the new national states emerging after 1918, the impact of political systems on artists’ attitudes, the discourses of art history, museum studies, monument conservation and exhibition practices. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, cultural politics, cultural history, and East Central European studies and history.
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Download or read book 100 Latvijas sievietes kult r un politik written by Ausma Cimdiņa and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sea Is My Country written by Joshua L. Reid and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the Makahs, a tribal nation at the most northwestern point of the contiguous United States, a deep relationship with the sea is the locus of personal and group identity. Unlike most other indigenous tribes whose lives are tied to lands, the Makah people have long placed marine space at the center of their culture, finding in their own waters the physical and spiritual resources to support themselves. This book is the first to explore the history and identity of the Makahs from the arrival of maritime fur-traders in the eighteenth century through the intervening centuries and to the present day. Joshua L. Reid discovers that the “People of the Cape” were far more involved in shaping the maritime economy of the Pacific Northwest than has been understood. He examines Makah attitudes toward borders and boundaries, their efforts to exercise control over their waters and resources as Europeans and Americans arrived, and their embrace of modern opportunities and technology to maintain autonomy and resist assimilation. The author also addresses current environmental debates relating to the tribe's customary whaling and fishing rights and illuminates the efforts of the Makahs to regain control over marine space, preserve their marine-oriented identity, and articulate a traditional future.
Download or read book The Middle Voice in Baltic written by Axel Holvoet and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth volume in the VARGReB series is a monograph presenting a collection of studies on middle-voice grams in Baltic, that is, on a widely ramified family of constructions with different syntactic and semantic properties but sharing a morphological marker of reflexive origin. Though the emphasis is on Baltic, ample attention is given to other languages as well, especially to Slavonic. The book offers many new insights into questions of syntactic and semantic interpretation, correct demarcation and diachronic explanation of middle-voice grams. The relationship between reflexive and middle, the workings of metonymy, changes in syntactic structure and lexical input as factors determining diachronic shifts within the middle-voice domain and transitions from one middle-voice gram to another – these are among the topics discussed in the book, which, beyond its relevance to Baltic and Slavonic scholarship, is also a contribution to the typology of the middle voice.
Download or read book Distant Fathers written by Marina Jarre and published by New Vessel Press. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A beautifully ingenious memoir, saturated in the history of the European 20th century, and made all the more compelling by Ann Goldstein’s luminous translation.” —Vivian Gornick, author of Fierce Attachments This singular autobiography unfurls from author Marina Jarre’s native Latvia during the 1920s and '30s and expands southward to the Italian countryside. In distinctive writing as poetic as it is precise, Jarre depicts an exceptionally multinational and complicated family: her elusive, handsome father—a Jew who perished in the Holocaust; her severe, cultured mother—an Italian Protestant who translated Russian literature; and her sister and Latvian grandparents. Jarre tells of her passage from childhood to adolescence, first as a linguistic minority in a Baltic nation and then in traumatic exile to Italy after her parents’ divorce. Jarre lives with her maternal grandparents, French-speaking Waldensian Protestants in the Alpine valleys southwest of Turin, where she finds fascist Italy a problematic home for a Riga-born Jew. This memoir—likened to Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov or Annie Ernaux’s The Years and now translated into English for the first time—probes questions of time, language, womanhood, belonging and estrangement, while asking what homeland can be for those who have none, or many more than one.
Download or read book The Cat King of Havana written by Tom Crosshill and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lolcats. Salsa dancing. Unrequited love. Tom Crosshill's smart and witty debut teen novel treads a colorful coming-of-age journey from New York City to Havana that will appeal to fans of books by Matthew Quick and Junot Díaz. When Rick Gutiérrez—known as "That Cat Guy" at school—gets dumped on his sixteenth birthday for uploading cat videos from his bedroom instead of experiencing the real world, he realizes it's time for a change. So Rick joins a salsa class . . . because of a girl, of course. Ana Cabrera is smart, friendly, and smooth on the dance floor. He might be half Cuban, but Rick dances like a drunk hippo. Desperate to impress Ana, he invites her to spend the summer in Havana. The official reason: learning to dance. The hidden agenda: romance under the palm trees. Except Cuba isn't all sun, salsa, and music. As Rick and Ana meet his family and investigate the reason why his mother left Cuba decades ago, they learn that politics isn't just something that happens to other people. And when they find romance, it's got sharp edges.
Download or read book Parliamentary Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Latvian An Essential Grammar written by Dace Praulinš and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latvian: An Essential Grammar is a concise, user-friendly guide to the basic grammatical structures of Latvian. Presenting a fresh and accessible description of the language, this engaging grammar uses clear, jargon-free explanations to set out the complexities of Latvian in short, readable sections. Key features include: clear grammar explanations frequent use of authentic examples pronunciation guide, bibliography and subject index. This is the ideal reference source both for those studying Latvian independently and for students in schools, colleges, universities and adult classes of all types to back up their studies.
Download or read book Daily Readings 2018 Latvian English Texts written by Viesturs Bambans and published by Viesturs Bambans. This book was released on 2018-03-07 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the Fourth year this Calendar is being prepared electronically, it is hoped that it will be used as the daily reading. It is intended for all Latvian families, in Latvia or those who live abroad from Latvia. It is dedicated as a source for reflection and a strength for the whole family, independent of the language that family members speak, whether Latvian or English. In this calendar, both clergy and laymen will find Sunday and feast day liturgies (which have been prepared by V. Kolms. These versions are the same as the prepublished edition). This calendar has been prepared in coordination with the LELB Church and its Archbishop Jānis Vanags. As well as with Dr. Gundars Ceipe, who represents the Church of Brethren in Latvia, and has his given permission to reprint his congregation’s chosen readings for the year 2018. A “Thank you” to Dr. Valdis Tēraudkalns for permitting the use of the latest translated Bible texts. As well as a “Thank you” to the Lockman Foundation for permitting the use of the New American Standard Bible text. Continuing the tradition, the Calendar contains information on cultural history, which is associated with the formation of Latvian statehood. This time in collaboration with Agris Dzenis Mag. hist. - published a series of articles on twelve families - their efforts to lay foundation for independence and with that foundation of Latvia. Those families are Jūrdžu - Andrivs Jūrdžs; Brīvzemnieku - Fricis Brīvzemnieks; Dinsberģu; Kempju; Vatsonu; Rancānu; Voldemāru; Mīlenbahu; Baronu; Miglinīku; Trasūnu. And also include article about last Livonian families who lived within and around city of Cēsis and their effort to gain independence. Those families where part of different upbringing, political and religious viewpoints, though with the dream of the independent Latvia which become reality through their work and mentorship. In the Calendar you will find interesting tidbits, as they relate to the historic happenings in Latvia, as well as their connections with the Church and history. Wishing all who read this book, God’ s presence and a blessed 2018 year!
Download or read book Riga and the automobile written by Edvīns Liepin̦š and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
