Wandering the Streets: Urban Visions of Latvian Modernists

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Wandering the Streets: Urban Visions of Latvian Modernists

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The collection of articles examines how the rapidly changing urban environment of the early twentieth century transformed Latvian literature, visual art, and cultural experience. Drawing on literary studies, art history, gender studies, mobility studies, affect theory, and approaches to material and everyday culture, the volume treats the modern city not merely as a setting, but as an environment that produced new ways of seeing, moving, interacting, and making art.

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  • ISBN: 978-9934-659-06-5
  • Volume: paperback
  • Page Count: 288
  • Language: In Latvian with summary in English
  • Year of Publication: 2026

The collection of articles examines how the rapidly changing urban environment of the early twentieth century transformed Latvian literature, visual art, and cultural experience. Drawing on  literary studies, art history, gender studies, mobility studies, affect theory, and approaches to material and everyday culture, the volume treats the modern city not merely as a setting, but as an  environment that produced new ways of seeing, moving, interacting, and making art. Its central concern is the relationship between urban space and modern consciousness: how streets, crowds, transport, cafés, shop windows, theatres, workplaces, nightlife, and other public spaces shaped the experience of modernity and became sites of aesthetic experimentation.