Meetings with Kontoglou: Enlightening, lively discussions on Byzantine iconography and music, diverse writers, philosophers and theologians, and contemporary events and trends, between the author and the great icon painter, writer, and philosopher Photios Kontoglou
Constantine Cavarnos
“In this[...]book, I present a biography of Kontoglou from 1920 to the time of his death in 1965, and at the same time a broad account of his work as a painter and writer, as well as an examination of his views on many significant subjects. My starting point and chief basis are my numerous meetings with him from 1952 to 1965, as these have been described in my diaries that I kept during that period.” —“PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR”
CONTENTS
FOREWORD BY THE PUBLISHERS OF THE GREEK EDITION PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR HOW I CAME TO KNOW KONTOGLOU VISIT TO THE CHURCH OF ST. ANDREW AT THE SIDE CHAPEL OF ST. GEORGE NEAR OMONOIA SQUARE AT THE MONASTERY OF LONGOVARDA REFERENCE TO MOUNT ATHOS AT KONTOGLOU’S HOME ON RUSSIAN WRITERS ON ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHERS ON EUROPEAN AND OTHER PHILOSOPHERS AT THE CHURCH OF KAPNIKAREA ON THE SACRED BYZANTINE ARTS ON GOETHE, KAZANTZAKIS, AND VENEZIS VARIOUS READINGS ON ATHANASIOS PARIOS AND CERTAIN MONASTIC SAINTS ON BYZANTINE MUSIC ON BYZANTINE ICONOGRAPHY AT THE MONASTERY OF KAISARIANI ON MATERIALISM AND SMOKING REGARDING THE BOOK THE MEANING OF ICONS ABOUT LESVOS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE BROTHERHOOD OF THEOLOGIANS "ZOE," AND ABOUT PLUTARCH ON ITALIAN RENAISSANCE PAINTING ON CONTEMPORARY GREEK LITERARY WRITERS ON "SCIENTIFIC" THEOLOGIANS ON BYZANTINE ICONOGRAPHY IN THE WEST ON DANCE-DRAMAS AND INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC IN CHURCHES ON AMERICAN WRITERS ON ST. ISAAC THE SYRIAN WITH ORTHODOX OF UGANDA ON CHANTING ON THE MUSICOLOGIST SIMON KARAS ON MOVIES ON DOSTOIEVSKY AT THE CHURCH OF ST. GEORGE OF KYPSELI, ATHENS AT "ASTIR" PUBLISHING CO. ON THE MIRACLES OF THERMI. LESVOS "CELEBRATION OF LOVE" PAPA-NICHOLAS PLANAS EVALUATION OF KONTOGLOU’S CONTRIBUTIONS THE CHAPEL OF THE POLYCLINIC OF ATHENS CALL TO THE HEAVENLY JERUSALEM OUR LAST MEETING INDEX OF NAMES INDEX OF SUBJECTS
Item Number: BKC264 Publication Data: Belmont, MA: Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 1992 Format: softcover Number of Pages: 214 Dimensions (l × w × h): 21.5 cm × 14.0 cm × 1.4 cm Additional Information: black-and-white illustrations ISBN: 1‒914744‒95‒X
