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John Craxton: A Life of Gifts

£20

  • Ian Collins
  • Yale University Press
  • 2021

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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΄Ελληνες Θεοί και Ήρωες στην Αρχαία Κύπρο

£25

  • Βάσος Καραγιώργης
  • Εμπορική Τράπεζα της Ελλάδος
  • Αθήνα 1998

1099 Κυπριακές Παροιμίες και Φράσεις

£12.00

  • Γιώργος Β. Γεωργίου
  • Εκδόσεις Ηλία Επιφανίου, Γ' έκδοση εμπλουτισμένη
  • Κύπρος 2018

A Likely Impossibility

£15.00

  • Dimitra Philaktou
  • Kerkyra publications

Ancient Cyprus

£8.00

  • Veronica Tatton-Brown
  • British Museum Press
  • London 1987

Archaeology in Cyprus 1960-1985

£25.00

  • V.Karageorghis
  • A.G. Leventis Foundation

Archaic Pottery of Chios: The Decorated Styles

£20.00

  • Anna A Lemos
  • Oxford University Committee for Archaeology
  • Oxford 1991

Byzantium - the Survival of Byzantine Sacred Art

£15.00

  • Maria Kazanaki-Lappa; trans. David Hardy
  • The Private Bank & Trust Company Ltd

Contemporary Greek Theatre: Volume 1

£9.99

  • Anagnostaki, Skourtis, Kehaidis and Haviara
  • Arcadia Books
  • London 1999

Corfu Blues

£10.00

  • Jim Potts
  • Ars Interpress Publications
  • St Petersburg 2006

Cypriot Ceramics: Reading the Prehistoric Record

£25.00

  • Jane A. Barlow, Diane. L. Bolger & Barbara Kling (Editor)
  • A.G. Leventis Foundation & The University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Pennsylvania
  • Pennsylvania 1991

Cyprus at the Crossroads: Geographical Perceptions and Representations from the Fifteenth Century

£30.00

  • Editors: Gilles Grivaud, George Tolias
  • Sylvia Ioannou Foundation
  • Athens 2014

Cyprus Remembered

£45.00

  • Renos Evryviades Wideson
  • Gorgoneion Projects

Cyprus, The Island of Aphrodite

£20

  • Libuse Mikova-Mika
  • Westfields Press

Daughters of The Labyrinth

£7

  • Ruth Padel
  • Corsair
  • UK 2021

Dictionary of Business Terms and Words

£10

  • Kleanthis G. Kotsiofides

Excavating at Salamis in Cyprus 1952-1974

£15.00

  • Vassos Karageorghis (Anna Marangou, Margaret You)
  • A.G. Leventis Foundation
  • Athens 1999

Flora Graeca, Oxford’s Finest Botanical Treasure

£3.00

  • Sibthorp, Bauer, Hawkins in the Levant
  • H Walter Lack

From Constantinople to Peloponnese

£20

  • Libuse Mikova-Mika
  • Westfields Press

Fury of the Gods

£10

  • L. Christodoulou
  • London 2013

Greece at War, 1940-1945

£5.00

  • Mark Dragoumis
  • Municipality of Athens Cultural Centre

Greece in the European Travellers' imagery 15th-19th centuries Identities, alterities, metamorphoses

£30

  • Aphrodite Kouria
  • Panayotis & Effie Michelis Foundation
  • Athens 2018

History Has a Face - Figures of 1821 in Othonian Greece by the Belgian Diplomat Benjamin Mary

£40

  • Sylvia Ioannou Foundation and the Historical and Ethnological Society of Greece
  • Athens 2021

John Craxton: A Life of Gifts

£20

  • Ian Collins
  • Yale University Press

Lemnos in History, Greek Island Base for Gallipoli

£15

  • Henrietta Megarry
  • Honeybee Books

Markos Vamvakaris, autobiography

£20.00

  • compiled by Angeliki Vellou Keil

Mathematical Adventures!

£9.95

  • Ioanna Georgiou
  • Tarquin Publications

Patterns of Magnificence

£15

  • Ioanna Papantoniou (Ed)
  • The Hellenic Centre
  • London 2014

Photographs by James Robertson. Athens and Grecian Antiquities 1853-1854. From the Photographic Archive of the Benaki Museum

£20.00

  • Editors: Fani Constantinou, Fani-Maria Tsigakou; Photographs: James Robertson
  • Museum Of Cycladic Art

Prouder than Ever

£20.00

  • A. T. Casdagli
  • Cylix Press
  • London 2014

Romiosini

£7

  • Yiannis Ritsos
  • Smokestack Books

The A.G. Leventis Foundation and the Cultural Heritage of Cyprus

£8.00

  • Vassos Karageorghis
  • A.G. Leventis Foundation

The Amorgos Conspiracy

£6

  • Elias Kulukundis
  • Eleftheroudakis

The Art of Ancient Cyprus in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

£15.00

  • Vassos Karageorghis, Eleni Vassilika & Penelope Wilson; photography by Andrew Morris & Andrew Norman
  • Fitzwilliam Museum
  • Cambridge 1999

The Cat of Portovecchio

£17.00

  • Maria Strani-Potts
  • Brandl & Schlesinger

The Cleaner Of Kastoria

£9

  • Jacqueline Paizis

The Coroplastic Art of Ancient Cyprus

£15.00

  • Vassos Karageorghis
  • A.G.Leventis Foundation

The Dodecanese: the Long Road to Union with Greece

£8.00

  • Lena Divani, Fotini Constantopoulou
  • Kastaniotis Editions
  • Athens 1997

The Fellowship of Women. Two Hundred Surgical Lives.

£25.00

  • Margaret Ghilchik
  • Smith-Gordon & Co Ltd

The First Modern Olympics, Athens 1896

£8

  • Hellenic Centre
  • London 2012

The Free Besieged and Other Poems

£6.00

  • Dionysios Solomos
  • Shoestring Press

The Green Line: the Division of Cyprus

£5.00

  • Doros Partasides
  • Greek Cypriot Brotherhood
  • London 1998

The Shortest History of Greece

£12

  • James Heneage
  • Old Street Publishing

The war we fought 1940-41: Paintings and drawings

£5.00

  • Alexandros D Alexandrakis
  • Hellenic Centre
  • London 1995

Traditional Recipes of Cyprus

£20.00

  • Athos Christodoulou
  • Ekdosis Elia Epiphaniou

Vorres Museum Folk Art Collection Pyrgi

£10

  • Vernardos, Manolis
  • The Vorres Museum

Αλληλογραφία Θεόφιλου Καϊρη

£5.00

  • Θεόφιλου Καϊρη / Δ. Ι. Πολέμης
  • Καΐρειος Βιβλιοθήκη
  • Άνδρος 1996

Αρχαία Ελληνική Τραγωδία

£8.00

  • Μεταφραστής: Στέλλα Μπαζάκου - Μαραγκουδάκη
  • Dian

Αρχαία Κυπριακή Γραμματεία 1 & 2

£10.00

  • Α. Ι. Βοσκού
  • ΄Ιδρυμα Α. Γ. Λεβέντη
  • Λευκωσια 1995

Η Γυναίκα της Κύπρου

£30

  • Ανδρούλα Βασιλείου
  • Εκδόσεις Εν Τύποις, EN TYPOIS

Η Ελλάδα της Ματθίλδης Σεράο

£15

  • Γεωργία Π. Δημητρακοπούλου
  • Αχαϊκές Εκδόσεις
  • Πάτρα 2017

Ιστορία της Νήσου Κύπρου

£50

  • 'Αντρος Παυλίδης
  • Επιφανίου Ηλίας
  • Κύπρος 2013

Μαγειρεύουμε μαζί

£25

  • Χρίστος Χριστοδούλου
  • Ηλίας Επιφανίου

Μετά το Βυζάντιο

£20

  • Βασίλης Φωτόπουλος
  • Πέργαμος - The Private Bank & Trust Company Ltd

Παίζοντας στην Αρχαία Ελλάδα με τον Λύσι και την Τιμαρέτη

£4.00

  • Μαρίνα Πλατή
  • Μουσείο Κυκλαδικής Τέχνης

Παραδοσιακές Κυπριακές Συνταγές

£20

  • 'Αθως Χριστοδούλου
  • Ηλίας Επιφανίου
  • Κύπρος 2011

Το Ίδρυμα Α.Γ. Λεβέντη και η Πολιτιστική Κληρονομιά της Κύπρου

£8

  • Βάσος Καραγιώργης
  • Ίδρυμα Α.Γ. Λεβέντη
  • Αθήνα 1990

Φιλελλην, Studies in Honour of Robert Browning

£20.00

  • C. N. Constantinides, N. M. Panagiotakes, E. Jeffreys and A. D. Angelou (eds)
  • Venice 1996