Download or read book Arts and a Nation written by Suzanne Pourchier-Plasseraud and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-10-14 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on Latvia, (between 1905 and 1940), Suzanne Pourchier-Plasseraud, has chosen a nation without an ancient state history of its own, to illustrate the evolution of the concept of national identity into a claim for independence, with the help of art and artists.