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A Letter-Book on an Extraordinary Personality in Exile

Author(s): Stella Pelše
Subject(s): Cultural history, Music, Visual Arts, History of ideas, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), History of Communism, Cold-War History, Book-Review, History of Art
Published by: Mākslas vēstures pētījumu atbalsta fonds
Keywords: Valdis Āboliņš; Mailart; Fluxus; Latvian exile; Cold War

Summary/Abstract: The review deals with the publication "Valdis Āboliņš. Avangards, meilārts un kultūras sakari aukstā kara laikā = Valdis Āboliņš. The Avant-garde, mailart, the New Left and Cultural Relations during the Cold War", eds. Ieva Astahovska and Antra Priede-Krievkalne (Riga: Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, 2019). The book comprising articles by art historians, curators and other contemporaries as well as Āboliņš' correspondence, writings and mailart is seen as a significant effort to establish the significance of this Latvian in exile, art curator and leftist activist.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 23
  • Page Range: 80-82
  • Page Count: 3
  • Language: Latvian