My grandmother, the Elder, Parthenios and me / Peter Lyssiotis and Frixos Ioannides
- Bib ID:
- 8127468
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Lyssiotis, Peter, book artist
- Description:
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- [Melbourne, Victoria] : Masterthief, 2019
- 40 unnumbered leaves : illustrations (some colour) ; 20 cm
- Summary:
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A collaborative artists' book consisting of a text accompanied by line drawings. The first person essay, written in East Burwood, Melbourne, Australia, links the seventy year old writer's grandmother (and her earthy village wisdom, often related through stories, parables and fables), his cousin the Elder (who the writer meets in his office or his cell at the Monastery of Saint Georgios in Mavrovouni in Cyprus), and the icon painter Parthenios (who was born in Paphos in 1794 and was active during the first few decades of the 19th century). The Elder introduces the writer to Parthenios, who becomes a new friend. The simple and direct style of his vernacular work, valued by the writer's working class ancestors, is compared to the almost baroque Byzantine icons of his contemporary, the 'Acknowledged Master' Iōannēs Kornaros (1745-1821). In contrast, Parthenios gained something more valuable than masterpiece status in a museum, gallery, or book: 'he earned my grandmother's trust' and it was an icon of the Apostle Luke by Parthenios that once sat on his grandmother's mantelpiece, guarded by a lit candle. Three pages of small colour reproductions of 23 icons by Parthenios (with captions in Greek) appear at the end of the book.
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- Statement of responsibility from colophon.
- "'My Grandmother, the Elder, Parthenios and Me' is a collaboration between Peter Lyssiotis and Frixos Ioannides. The book was completed in 2019, and has been printed at Redwood Prints on Mohawk Superfine paper in an edition of 10 with 2 artists' proofs." -Colophon.
- National Library of Australia copy is no. 10.
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2019
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