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| Wooden Churches in Lithuania |
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| Raimondas Paknys, Dalia Vasiliūnienė |
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The aim of the authors of this publication was to create a book that would offer impressive, but also unexpected and unusual images of Lithuania’s most beautiful wooden churches. In bypassing a scholarly study of heritage, or the traditionally accepted representative recording of only the most valuable works, the hope is that readers of this book will feel as if they are travelling Lithuania’s villages and towns as passers-by, free of preconceived notions, and by chance opening the heavy doors of a modest church building, to unexpectedly discover the beauty that lies within. One’s eye will hopefully be drawn to the rough-hewn timbers flecked with light, the old benches lining the naves, luxurious altars with their singular varieties of form and colour hovering in the depths beyond the presbytery, the thickets of carved flora and wooden acanthi flickering a dull gold, naively worshipful faces of the saints, the frozen smiles of plump-cheeked angels, the beam of light on the worn wooden floors.
We trust that the images in this book will both please the eye, and allow the reader to behold the spirit of the past hovering inside each church, to hear the quiet of secluded places undisturbed by modern rhythms, to feel the eternal cycle of the liturgical year that has been quietly spinning for centuries.
Principal funding – Ministry of Culture, Department of Cultural Heritage.
Separate publications In Lithuanian and English.
Hard cover with jacket, 270×310 mm, 240 p. |
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ISBN 978-9955-736-43-1 (Lithuanian)
ISBN 978-9955-736-42-4 (English)
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| Vilnius: Portrait of a City |
| Anthology of photographs and text |
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The book is comprised of photographs of Vilnius from the 19th–21st century, and written references to the city, the earliest of which is a letter by Gediminas dated 1323.
Vytautas Augustinas, Arūnas Baltėnas, Alfonsas Budvytis, Jan Bułhak, Tyburcy Chodżko, Józef Czechowicz, Roman Loranc, Alter Kacyzne and many others all photographed the same streets, churches, squares, districts and panoramas. Their works are grouped here according to subject and a certain aesthetic logic.
Alongside them are essays on Vilnius (Tomas Venclova, Czeslaw Milosz); travelogues, beginning in the time of Adam Honor Kirkor; recollections (Lucy S. Dawidowicz, Alfred Doblin, Joseph Frank etc.); travel impressions (Keith Chesterton, Anna Dostoyevskaya etc.); letters (Žemaitė, George Forster etc.); excerpts, and verse, all dedicated to Vilnius.
The foreword includes text in the languages of the inhabitants of Vilnius – Lithuanian, Polish, Latin, Yiddish, Russian, and Byelorussian.
Compiled by Isaac Zibuts and Raimondas Paknys
Text chosen and edited by Audra Kairienė
Available in Lithuanian and in English
240 photographs
Hard cover, slipcase
Print 5×5, 250×320 mm, 360 p. |
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ISBN 978-9955-736-31-8 (Lithuanian)
ISBN 978-9955-736-32-5 (English)
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| They Lived in Vabalninkas |
| 1925–1941 |
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Album of portraits and group photographs of Jews living in Vabalninkas, as well as images of the town, in the period between the two world wars, from the archives of photographer Juozas Daubaras.
Commissioned by the State Vilna Gaon Jewish Museum
Compiled, foreword by Dalija Epšteinaitė
Designed by Isaac Zibuts
Available in Lithuanian and in English
180 black and white photographs
Hard cover with jacket, 168 p., 230×30 mm |
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ISBN 978-9955-736-24-0 (lithuanian)
ISBN 978-9955-736-25-7 (english)
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| Sounds of Silence |
| Traces of Jewish life in Lithuania |
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A memorial album dedicated to the annihilated Jewish communities of Lithuania. Photographs that capture the images of cemeteries, prayer houses, and other buildings and sites connected to Jewish life, or more precisely –
images of what remains many years after the golden age of Jewish Lithuania. Alongside them are the Yiddish and Lithuanian names of towns and villages whose Jewish inhabitants made up a large proportion, perhaps even the majority of the overall population from the 19th and the first half of the 20th century – accompanied by a number of telling figures from their history. This book not only evokes the sadness and pain of loss, it reminds us of the people who drew their sap of life from Lithuania, who created and fostered their unique culture, who simply lived, in this land. We hear the din of the eternal silence that shrouds Jewish Lithuania.
Project - Isaac Zibuts
Photos - Raimondas Paknys
Preface author and consultant - Dovid Katz
Available in English, Lithuanian
Hard cover, 204 p., 300×264 mm |
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ISBN 978-9955-736-26-4 (Lithuanian)
ISBN 978-9955-736-27-1 (English)
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| Žoromskis |
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| Kristina Miklaševičiūtė |
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An album-monograph dedicated to Kazimieras Žoromskis (1913-2004), an artist who created unique paintings in an Op impressionistic style. His works appeared alongside paintings by Marc Chagall, Karl Appel, Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, Willem de Kooning and other famous 20th century artists in exhibitions in Madrid, Washington, New York and Paris. Žoromskis' paintings can be found in museums in Europe and America, his biography and works appear in international art reference books, and his achievements have merited distinguished Lithuanian and USA awards.
This book, the first detailed presentation of this original artist to the public, includes a list of reproductions, index of titles, and bibliography.
Book designer – Isaac Zibuts
Available in Lithuanian and in English
Hard cover with jacket, 240 p., 310×235 mm |
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ISBN 9955-736-00-3 (Lithuanian) /sold out/
ISBN 9955-736-01-1 (English)
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| Algirdas Steponavičius |
| Mysterious Illumination of Being |
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| Editor and lay-out artist – Birutė Žilytė |
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This album presents a portrait of an original and profound artist who created a vital and meaningful world of art. Although the greater portion of his legacy is made up of the book illustrations that formed the aesthetic sense of several generations, Steponavičius also painted, and created engravings and wall paintings. The works of this national laureate received Lithuanian and international awards, and illuminated an entire epoch of Lithuanian graphics. The album comprehensively lays out Steponavičius' works, and includes numerous documentary photographs. Published here as well are the artist's own thoughts, comments by art critics, a biography, bibliography, and list of exhibitions and illustrations.
"This is a book, – writes Martynas Dūda, – that permits one, perhaps even obliges one, to be nostalgic. [...] Leastways as a life's receptacle, this album surpasses simply the visual form of A. Steponavičius' life, and becomes at the same time our form..."
Includes some English translation.
Most beautiful book of the year.
Hard cover, with jacket, 256 p., 288x218 mm |
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ISBN 9986-830-61-3 (Lithuanian)
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| The Old Lithuanian Sculpture |
| Die alte Litauische holzskulptur |
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Album of old sacral wood sculptures.
Most beautiful book of the year.
Text author – Marcelijus Martinaitis
Photographers – Arūnas Baltėnas and Raimondas Paknys
Artist – Isaac Zibuts
Lithuanian, English, and German; colour photgraphs
Hard cover, with jacket, 144 p., 345x250 mm |
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ISBN 9986-9000-1-8 (Lithuanian/English/German)
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