Lietuvos Fotomenas Das Beste Aus Litauen The Best From Lithuania rare hardcover

Genre

Photography, Art & Design

Format

Hardback

Title

The Best From Lithuania

Lietuvos Fotomenas Das Beste Aus Litauen The Best From Lithuania rare hardcover Very rare photography book! Like new condition. One copy is available on EBay for $500(!). Between the years of 1(contact info removed), Lithuania saw the emergence of a new photographic generation. Slowly but surely, a wealth of independent, divergent styles were able to flourish once more. The irony present in the work of Aleksandras Macijauskas, whose allegories contain hidden, subversive criticism, the romantic viewpoint of Rimantas Dichavicius, and the surrealism of Vitaly Butyrinas, serve to underline just a few trends. In the 1980s, and riding on the wave of Perestroika, yet another generation came to the force, including Violeta Bubelyte, who constantly questions in her self-portraits the nature of her own literal nakedness, Gintaras Balionis, with his symbolic and metaphoric observation, and Pranas Gudaitis, whose nudes were obviously influenced by classical painting. The work of Virgilis Sonta evokes a strange and apolyptic world. Romualdas Pozerskis, whose models posed for him in the studio of his artist friends, not only relegated the nude to a far less important role, but also managed to accentuate the manifold artistic positions in painting and sculpture. Aurelija Cepulonskaite, the youngest of the photographers presented in this book produces sensitive pictures of young girls. Loving couples form the basis of Rolas Simulis' work; they are tender and seek harmonious relationships. In the work of both photographers, we notice new possibilities of expression, countenanced only by a recently independent Lithuanian state. This book has not received near the press coverage that it deserves. At present it's not even available at any major U.S. bookstores. This is a tragedy - for this is one of the most outstanding photography books published in recent times. BodyVision is an intoxicating celebration of the artistic nude from an amazing group of ten Lithuanian artists headlined by the masterful pioneer of Lithuanian nude photography himself, Rimantas Dichavicius. Across a landscape of 159 pages we are presented with a dizzying spectrum of different visions: the surreal imagery of Vitaly Butyrinas, the classical nudes of Pranas Gudaitis and Violeta Bubelyte, the mesmerizing work of Aurelija Cepulinskaite whose use of young girls in settings of forced isolation and loneliness are absolutely breathtaking, the razor sharp and superbly composed nudes of Romualdas Pozerskis, and the striking studio work of Gintaras Balionis. Four photographers devote their attention to couples: Aleksandras Macijauskas is genius in his beautiful study of Eros among the aged, Rolas Simulis focuses upon erotic photography (whose images provoked a backlash of disapproval in his country), the symbolic work of Gintaras Balionis, and the apocalyptic work of Virgilis Sonta, who was mysteriously murdered during the time of liberation from the Soviets. The unbelievable work of Rimantas Dichavicius alone would make this book a worthwhile investment, but taken as a whole, this is one of the most exciting publications to come out in recent memory. Get it no matter where you have to go.

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1st edition