Cultural books available from the Hellenic Centre
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John Craxton: A Life of Gifts
Ian Collins
English
£20
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.
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24 Pictures of the Revolution of 1821 Makriyannis and Zografos A fighter and an artist
Marisa De Castro
English
£15.00
Ancient Palaikastro – 1902-2002, An Exhibition to mark 100 years of Archaeological Work
English – French – Greek
£14.00
Byzantium - the Survival of Byzantine Sacred Art
Maria Kazanaki-Lappa; trans. David Hardy
English
£15.00
Colours of Medieval Cyprus Through The Ceramic Collection Of The Leventis Municipal Museum Of Nicosia
Papanikola-Bakirtzis, D.
English
£12.00
Cypriot Ceramics: Reading the Prehistoric Record
Jane A. Barlow, Diane. L. Bolger & Barbara Kling (Editor)
English
£25.00
Cyprus at the Crossroads: Geographical Perceptions and Representations from the Fifteenth Century
Editors: Gilles Grivaud, George Tolias
English
£30.00
Dictionary of Cypriot Dialect - Λεξικό της Κυπριακής Διαλέκτου
Kleanthis G. Kotsiofides
English – Greek
£25 (hard copy edition available at £40)
Excavating at Salamis in Cyprus 1952-1974
Vassos Karageorghis (Anna Marangou, Margaret You)
English
£15.00
Flora Graeca, Oxford’s Finest Botanical Treasure
Sibthorp, Bauer, Hawkins in the Levant
English
£3.00
Greece in the European Travellers' imagery 15th-19th centuries Identities, alterities, metamorphoses
Aphrodite Kouria
English
£30
Philip, Prince of Greece: The Duke of Edinburgh's Early Life and the Greek Succession
John Carr, Constantinos Lagos
English
£25
Photographs by James Robertson. Athens and Grecian Antiquities 1853-1854. From the Photographic Archive of the Benaki Museum
Editors: Fani Constantinou, Fani-Maria Tsigakou; Photographs: James Robertson
English
£20.00
The A.G. Leventis Foundation and the Collections of Cypriote Antiquities in Foreign Museums
Karageorghis, Souyou
English
£15.00
The Art of Ancient Cyprus in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Vassos Karageorghis, Eleni Vassilika & Penelope Wilson; photography by Andrew Morris & Andrew Norman
English
£15.00
The Dodecanese: the Long Road to Union with Greece
Lena Divani, Fotini Constantopoulou
English
£8.00
The Metaphysical and Gnoseological Foundation of Language - A holistic approach to Platonic linguistics
Eleni Papamichael
Greek
£45
Αρχαία Κυπριακή Τέχνη στη Συλλογή Σεβέρη - Ancient Cypriot Art in the Severis Collection
V. Karageorghis
English – Greek
£20.00
Φιλελλην, Studies in Honour of Robert Browning
C. N. Constantinides, N. M. Panagiotakes, E. Jeffreys and A. D. Angelou (eds)