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Ghika, Craxton, Leigh Fermor
On February 24, the art lovers of Cyprus will be able to enjoy a fascinating retrospective of the life and work of three important artists of the 20th century. The exhibition ‘Ghika, Craxton, Leigh Fermor: Charmed lives in Greece’, presents the friendship of three significant figures, the artists Nikos Hatzikyriakos-Ghika (1906-1994) and John Craxton (1922-2009) and the writer Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011), from the early years of their acquaintance in the mid-1940s to the end of their lives. Through the display of works of art, extracts from texts, photographs, letters, manuscripts and publications, we follow their relationship and their artistic and literary careers, with their love...
Critical Times, Critical Thoughts
While no member of the public could have missed the Greek crisis, it has been represented only by the refraction in journalism of the views of politicians, economists and international bureaucrats. The voice of artists, “the antennae of the race”, has been so far unheard. In specially commissioned essays by major Greek writers and critics which appear for the first time in any language, the reader of this book will find new insights into the crisis, its causes and its wider ramifications. It will interest not only students of Greece, but anyone concerned with the highly topical and intertwined issues of nationalism, historical memory, otherness, migration, and xenophobia. By being simultaneously a reflection on and a reflection of a society in deep crisis, this book also offers a model for future studies.
John Craxton
Uplifting and engaging, this story recounts the life and career of a rebellious 20th-century British artist Born into a large, musical, and bohemian family in London, the British artist John Craxton (1922–2009) has been described as a Neo-Romantic, but he called himself a “kind of Arcadian”. His early art was influenced by Blake, Palmer, Miró, and Picasso. After achieving a dream of moving to Greece, his work evolved as a personal response to Byzantine mosaics, El Greco, and the art of Greek life. This book tells his adventurous story for the first time. At turns exciting, funny, and poignant, the saga is enlivened by Craxton’s ebullient pictures. Ian Collins expands our understanding of the artist greatly—including an in-depth exploration of the storied, complicated friendship between Craxton and Lucian Freud, drawing on letters and memories that Craxton wanted to remain private until after his death.
Asia Minor Hellenism
"The luxurious and impressive publication is the accompanying catalogue of the exhibition of the same name, which was co-organized by the Benaki Museum and the Centre for Asia Minor Studies and was hosted at the Pireos 138 building, in the fall of 2022. The publication, with its rich illustrations and informative accompanying texts, presents a panorama of the history and the various aspects of the life and cultural creation of Asia Minor Hellenism, the dramatic period between 1919-1922, which led to the Catastrophe and persecution, but and the long-term integration processes of the refugee world in Greece and its great contribution to the multifaceted renewal of Greek society"--
Cyprus from Colonialism to the Present: Visions and Realities
This volume is published in honour of the acclaimed work of Robert Holland, historian of the British Empire and the Mediterranean, and it brings together essays based on the original research of his colleagues, former students and friends. The focal theme is modern Cyprus, on which much of Robert Holland’s own history writing was concentrated for many years. The essays analyse British rule in Cyprus between 1878 and 1960, and especially the transition to independence; the coverage, however, also incorporates the post-colonial era and the construction of present-day dilemmas. The Cypriot experience intertwines with Anglo-Hellenic relations generally, so that a section of the book is devoted...
Beauty and the Male Body in Byzantium
A neglected aspect of Byzantium, physical beauty appears as a quality with an unmistakable dark side, relating ambiguously to notions of power, goodness, evil, masculinity, effeminacy, life and death. Examined as an attribute of the human and, in particular, of the male body, this study of beauty refines our understanding of the Byzantine world.
Historians as Nation Builders
A selection of papers from a conference held in honour of Professor Hugh Seton-Watson on the occasion of his retirement in l983. The aim of the contributors is to illustrate the role of the historian in the political life of Central and East European nations.
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Synopsis
Synopsis is an electronic and print index to scholarly publications on Greek Studies. Consisting of a PC or Macintosh formatted disk, a print edition of the index, and a copy of Euretes, a computer user's manual that will aid in record retrieval and conversion of information contained in the database, the annual is compiled out of more than 950 scholarly journals and other publications, and out of the holdings of major US libraries, the Library of Congress and the National Library of Greece.Indexing nearly 5,100 journal paper titles and 3,100 book titles, Synopsis covers the areas of Classical, Hellenistic, Biblical, Byzantine, Medieval and Modern Greek Studies. The volume of collected material has been compiled in three indexes: 1) the general listing and the author index; 2) the list of the indexed scholarly journals and other publications; and, 3) the text, geographical, name and subject index
