Folk Bee-hives

Folk Art in Pictures
Karel Sourek
Spring Books
London
c.1960

More images of bee-hives from this title:


Caption: Bee-hive shaped like a huge pear with a devil mask. Eyeballs of glass. Prievidza, Central Slovakia; 19th century. (Slovak National Museum, Martin.)



Caption: Bee-hive with crown shaped like devil's head with tongue put out. Prievidza, Central Slovakia; 19th century. (Slovak National Museum, Martin.)



Caption: Cylinder-shaped bee-hive with mask. Straw smeared with clay and brightly coloured. Solvakia; 19th century. (Slovak National Museum, Martin.)



Caption: Bee-hive from tree-trunk complete with bark, decorated above the opening with a cross and the date 1882. (Moravian Museum, Brno.)

Folk Weddings & Whiskers

Folk Art in Pictures
Karel Sourek
Spring Books
London
c.1960

An extraordinary book, with essay by Karel Sourek, a painter who travelled the Czechoslovak Republic documenting these artefacts in museums, private collections, crossroads and cottages. A favourite section on folk beehives will be featured in the next post.



Caption: 'Turon'–head of carnival billy-goat from carnival precession in the Slovak village of Lutisa. 19th century. (Slovak National Museum, Martin.)



Caption: Man with whiskers–effigy from rustic wedding festivities at Lutise, Slovakia. 19th century. (Slovak National Museum, Martin.)



Caption: Combined cocks motive–decoration of jug handle from Priechod, Slovakia. Wood, 20th century. Ethnographic Museum, Prague.)



Caption: Wedding candlesticks from Slovakia–wood carving combined with decorated tree. Slovakia, 19th century (Slovak National Museum, Martin.)



Caption: Top of stove-head with Hungarian moustache.

In Russia with Arthur Miller

In Russia
Inge Morath & Arthur Miller
Secker & Warburg
London 1969

A moody travelogue by playwright Arthur Miller and his photographer wife, Inge Morath. Together, they visit and record meetings at the homes of both dead and living writers in Russia.



Caption: Andrei Dostoevesky (grandson of the writer) crossing Peace Square–called Market Square when Crime and Punishment was written. The novel says Raskolnikov "had often crossed that little street which turns at an angle leading from the Market Place to Sadovy Street. Of late he had often felt drawn to wander about the district when he felt depressed, that he might feel more so."




Caption: Tolstoy's tomb in the park of Yasnaya Polyana. The writer was buried here, according to his wishes, in an anonymous grave.

The 'anonymous' grave is obviously well-tended. Someone must clear the fresh snowfall every day.