This monograph discusses post-war modernist architecture in Soviet Lithuania which, together with other Baltic republics, has been seen as exceptional, appropriating Western cultural models, and was labelled “the Soviet West.”
Utilizing works from museums across North America, this book traces the path of the pioneering sculptor Jacques Lipchitz from his birthplace in Lithuania to his early work in Paris before World War I, where he was associated with the Parisian avant-garde and applied cubist principles to three-dimensional artwork. At the outbreak of World War II the artist fled to New York, where he worked on increasingly monumental sculptures until his death in 1973.
This book is about the role of folklore, folklore archives, and folklore studies in the contemporary history of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania - together called the Baltic countries.