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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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| They Lived in Vabalninkas |
| 1925–1941 |
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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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| Žoromskis |
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| Kristina Miklaševičiūtė |
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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 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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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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