Pollu Kaljo (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 175 pp., illustrations, maps. In Estonian, English, Russian. owner's label & signature on half-title page.

Condition: Used - Very Good. VG hardback. Text in Estonian and English. A clean, tidy copy in tight binding. Used - Very Good. VG hardback.

Folder. Condition: Very Good. Text in English, Russian and Estonian. 8 pp. Includes 13 reproductions and an additional 8 copies of details from some of the reproductions. Some scuffing and creasing to the folder. 13 reproductions: Virmalised Uni Kahekesi Maailm nagu pada Päikesevene Leib Legend Taevaskoda Lindude puu Hetk Mehed Maa-emale Mõtisklus.…

Folder. Condition: Very Good. Text in English, Russian and Estonian. 16 pp. 25 separate plates. Minor scuffing and creasing to the folder. "Kalivägi". This graphic series gives us a concise and vivid picture of nature and man with their light and dark sides - night and day, heaven and underworld, good and evil forces. The sea stands here symbolically for the primeval state of the world - a prerequisite of life. A newly born earth is showing from the waters like a flat disc. In the genealogical myths the waterfowl has a central role. She is now gliding through the deepening dusk in search of a nesting place, emblematizing thus "the waterfowl people", as the Finno-Ugrian and Samoyede tribes have been poetically called because of the recurring waterfowl image in their spiritual and material folk culture. This is the dawn of the "Kalivägi" world which makes the ones willing to enter it more imaginative and rich. Many creative minds have been drawn to that world - writers and scientists, composers and painters. What is that world all about, why is it such as it is! That inexhaustible world. …

Folder. Condition: Very Good. Artist's signature on the folder. Text in English, Russian and Estonian. 16 pp. 25 separate plates. Moderate scuffing and creasing to the folder, bookplate on the inside flap. "Kalivägi". This graphic series gives us a concise and vivid picture of nature and man with their light and dark sides - night and day, heaven and underworld, good and evil forces. The sea stands here symbolically for the primeval state of the world - a prerequisite of life. A newly born earth is showing from the waters like a flat disc. In the genealogical myths the waterfowl has a central role. She is now gliding through the deepening dusk in search of a nesting place, emblematizing thus "the waterfowl people", as the Finno-Ugrian and Samoyede tribes have been poetically called because of the recurring waterfowl image in their spiritual and material folk culture. This is the dawn of the "Kalivägi" world which makes the ones willing to enter it more imaginative and rich. Many creative minds have been drawn to that world - writers and scientists, composers and painters. What is that world all about, why is it such as it is! That inexhaustible world. Signed by Kaljo Põllu.…