Download or read book Quiet modernism in Lithuania written by Elona Lubytė and published by Tyto Alba. This book was released on 1997 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Baltic Modernism written by Marija Dremaite and published by Dom Publishers. This book was released on 2017-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly illustrated monograph discusses post-war modernist architecture in Soviet Lithuania which, together with other Baltic republics, has been seen as exceptional, appropriating Western cultural models much faster and with greater passion, and was labelled "the Soviet West." Nevertheless, the matter of identifying the specific architectural traits that distinguished modernism in the Baltic region from that of other Soviet republics is not a simple exercise, and the specifi city of socialist modernism clearly requires a socialpolitical approach. In this book research on Soviet Lithuanian architecture relies on the relationship between official planning discourse and local social practice, and the wide range of historical actors in planning practices.
Download or read book Lithuanian Architecture and Urbanism written by Almantas Samalavičius and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together essays focused on Lithuania’s architectural and urban legacy, as well as recent developments since 1990, when the country said a firm farewell to the era of dependence and the Soviet communist regime. Nevertheless, as the book argues, the legacy of the past still dominates due to an uncritical adoption of Modernist dogmas in architecture and urban design by architects and urban designers during the last two decades of Soviet colonization. It offers a critical overview of urban developments during the last three decades which were marked by the emergence of private capital, the market economy and the growth of the real estate sector. The rapid expansion of the building industry brought new challenges to architects and urban designers, and more often than not they fell prey to the new ideology of economism, commodification and commercialism. These developments are reflected in the urban tissue and aesthetics, as well as in the present shape of urban public spaces, in Lithuania’s capital Vilnius and other large cities. The book will be useful to architectural and cultural historians, as well as to critics interested in current developments and historical trends in eastern Europe and Baltic urban and architectural developments.
Download or read book Life should be Transparent written by and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of thirteen conversations introduces us to the life of an exceptional person—theatre critic, Germanist, and long-time chair of the Open Lithuania Fund board—Irena Veisaitė. The dialogue between Lithuanian historian Aurimas Švedas and a woman who reflects deeply on her experiences reveals both one individual’s historically dramatic life and the fate of Europe and Lithuania in the twentieth century. Through the complementary lenses of history and memory, we confront with Veisaitė the horrific events of the Holocaust, which brought about the end of the Lithuanian Jewish world. We also meet an array of world-class cultural figures, see fragments of legendary theatre performances, and hear meaningful words that were spoken or heard decades ago. This book’s interlocutors do not so much seek to answer the question “What was it like?” but instead repeatedly ask each other: “What, how, and why do we remember? What is the meaning of our experiences? How can history help us to live in the present and create the future? How do we learn to understand and forgive?” A series of Veisaitė’s texts, statements, and letters, presented at the end of the book suggest further ways of answering these questions.
Download or read book Contemporary Ukrainian and Baltic Art written by Svitlana Biedarieva and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on political and social expressions in contemporary art of Ukraine, Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia. It explores the transformations that art in Ukraine and the Baltic states has undergone since their independence in 1991, discussing how the conflicts and challenges of the last three decades have impacted the reconsideration of identity and fostered resistance of culture against economic and political crises. It analyzes connections between the past and the present as seen by the artists in these countries and looks at their visions of the future. Contemporary Ukrainian art portrays various perspectives, addressing issues from controversial historical topics to the present military conflict in the East of the country. Baltic art speaks out against the erasure of past historical traumas and analyzes the pertinence of its cultural scene to the European community. The contributions in this collection open a discussion of whether there is a single paradigm that describes the contemporary processes of art production in Ukraine and the Baltic countries. With contributions by Ieva Astahovska, Svitlana Biedarieva, Kateryna Botanova, Olena Martynyuk, Vytautas Michelkevičius, Lina Michelkevičė, Margaret Tali, and Jessica Zychowicz.
Download or read book Art of the Baltics written by Alla Rosenfeld and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union, 1956-1986, which comprises nearly twenty thousand works, is part of the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Download or read book Lithuanian paths to modernity written by Egidijus Aleksandravičius and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Emergence of Modern Lithuania written by Alfred Erich Senn and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cultural Policy and Democracy written by Geir Vestheim and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-22 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses how public cultural policies can relate to the principle political issue of democracy. Here, democratic cultural policies include ideas and ideologies, institutional structures, agents and interests, power, access and participation and distribution of economic resources. Contributors focus on analysing the relationship between a political system and culture and the arts as an empirical field. They critically consider questions such as: How do different democratic forms affect cultural policy consequences? Can cultural autonomy be combined with cultural democracy? How is cultural policy-making used as a political process and which interests are involved? What position does popular culture have in cultural policies? How does a former Soviet state like Lithuania handle the question of culture and democracy? What does it mean when UNESCO talks about cultural diversity? How did intellectuals act in cultural policy debates in France in the late 19th century? The volume also looks at whether the democratisation of culture is actually possible. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Cultural Policy.
Download or read book Ar buvo tylusis modernizmas Lietuvoje written by Elona Lubytė and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 48th Esposizione Internationale D arte written by Harald Szeemann and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transitions of Lithuanian Postmodernism written by Mindaugas Kvietkauskas and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2011 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material -- The Paradox of the Double Post /Mindaugas Kvietkauskas -- The History of Post-Soviet Literature: Challenges and Models of a New Identity /Aušra Jurgutienė -- Postmodernism as Conjuncture /Dalia Satkauskytė -- The Writer in the Post-Soviet State: Trends in Self-Interpretation /Loreta Jakonytė -- Lithuanian Prose: in Search of a New Identity /Jūratė Sprindytė -- The Present of Past Things: Transformations of Lithuanian Historical Discourse /Algis Kalėda -- Apocalyptic Imagination in the Novels of Ričardas Gavelis /Regimantas Tamošaitis -- Three Articulations of Isaac in Lithuanian Literature /Loreta Mačianskaitė -- Women's Literature and Its Readings /Solveiga Daugirdaitė -- Patterns of Post-War Memory /Saulė Matulevičienė -- Forms of Self-Awareness in Lithuanian Documentary Literature /Elena Baliutytė -- Lithuanian Essay: Between the Soviet Era and Independence /Dalia Čiočytė -- Tomas Venclova: The Poet and Totalitarianism /Donata Mitaitė -- Sources of Classicism in Contemporary Polish and Lithuanian Literature /Audinga Peluritytė-Tikuišienė -- Lyric Poetry since the 1980s: Caught Between Unrest and Meditation /Rita Tūtlytė -- The Art of the Unpoetic Poem: Trends in Post-Soviet Lithuanian Poetry /Brigita Speičytė -- Authors -- Index of Names.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Soviet Underground Culture written by Mark Lipovetsky and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-26 with total page 1081 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Soviet Underground Culture is the first comprehensive English-language volume covering a history of Soviet artistic and literary underground. In forty-four chapters, an international group of leading scholars introduce readers to a web of subcultures within the underground, highlight the culture achievements of the Soviet underground from the 1930s through the 1980s, emphasize the multimediality of this cultural phenomenon, and situate the study of underground literary texts and artworks into their broader theoretical, ideological, and political contexts.
Download or read book Post communist Lithuania written by Stanislovas Juknevičius and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Making and Breaking of Soviet Lithuania written by Violeta Davoliūtė and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-03 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appearing on the world stage in 1918, Lithuania suffered numerous invasions, border changes and large scale population displacements.The successive occupations of Stalin in 1940 and Hitler in 1941, mass deportations to the Gulag and the elimination of the Jewish community in the Holocaust gave the horrors of World War II a special ferocity. Moreover, the fighting continued after 1945 with the anti-Soviet insurrection, crushed through mass deportations and forced collectivization in 1948-1951. At no point, however, did the process of national consolidation take a pause, making Lithuania an improbably representative case study of successful nation-building in this troubled region. As postwar reconstruction gained pace, ethnic Lithuanians from the countryside – the only community to remain after the war in significant numbers – were mobilized to work in the cities. They streamed into factory and university alike, creating a modern urban society, with new elites who had a surprising degree of freedom to promote national culture. This book describes how the national cultural elites constructed a Soviet Lithuanian identity against a backdrop of forced modernization in the fifties and sixties, and how they subsequently took it apart by evoking the memory of traumatic displacement in the seventies and eighties, later emerging as prominent leaders of the popular movement against Soviet rule.
Download or read book Vilnius 1900 2013 written by Julija Reklaitė and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modernism and American Mid 20th Century Sacred Architecture written by Anat Geva and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 667 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mid-20th century sacred architecture in America sought to bridge modernism with religion by abstracting cultural and faith traditions and pushing the envelope in the design of houses of worship. Modern architects embraced the challenges of creating sacred spaces that incorporated liturgical changes, evolving congregations, modern architecture, and innovations in building technology. The book describes the unique context and design aspects of the departure from historicism, and the renewal of heritage and traditions with ground-breaking structural features, deliberate optical effects and modern aesthetics. The contributions, from a pre-eminent group of scholars and practitioners from the US, Australia, and Europe are based on original archival research, historical documents, and field visits to the buildings discussed. Investigating how the authority of the divine was communicated through new forms of architectural design, these examinations map the materiality of liturgical change and communal worship during the mid-20th century.
