Explore, taste, and feel the carefreeness of vintage summer days in a small family village on the island of Crete during the 1980s. Inspiring, joyful and nostalgic, this little book of stories travels the reader to the easy and relaxing family summer days underlining Cretan tradition and the ethics of the era, through the eyes and the youthful impulse of a 12-year-old girl.&nbsp;Smell the figs, lose your breath skidding down rural farmers paths and feel the mountain breeze. Bake bread or welcome the guests and become part of the big feast preparations. Or secretly maybe fall in love. Mostly daydream and connect with the big boisterous family soirees surrounded with all kinds of stories, fresh fruit and iced homemade raki.”“August Fifteenth” is a journal of daily summer moments in rural Crete accompanied with colorful drawings, leaving free space for mind wondering and daydreaming.A bedside table reading to sweet dreams.

AUGUST FIFTEENTH | GREEK EDITION

BOOKS

A revealing chronicle and visual history of the artist’s studio, examining the myth and reality of the creative space from early times to the present day.The artist’s workplace has always been an idealized utopia as well as the domain of dirty, backbreaking work. Written descriptions, paintings, prints, and even photographs of the artist’s atelier distort as much as they document. This illuminating cultural history of the artist’s studio charts the myth and reality of the creative space from Ancient Greece to the present.Tracing a history that extends far beyond the bohemian, romantic, and renaissance cults of the artist, each chapter focuses on key developments of the studio space as seen in a variety of familiar and unfamiliar images. Mythical and divine makers and some amateurs are included, alongside craftspeople―potters, illuminators, weavers, embroiderers, and architects―along with artists such as Artemisia Gentileschi, Claude Monet, Michelangelo, Rosa Bonheur, and Diego Rivera. Each carefully chosen example places the studio within a cultural and political context, with the aim of correcting the historical imbalance that has distorted the picture by leaving out the many artisans who collaborated with artists. Leading authority James Hall also extends the discussion to the artist’s museum and the artist’s house, as well as the development of portable studios, with sections on “plein air” painting and drawing in the East.Visually appealing, featuring images of the artist’s studio from around the world, this compelling, eye-opening history identifies key studios, individuals, trends, and turning points in the history of the creative space.125 color illustrations

THE ARTIST'S STUDIO

Living at the foot of Mount Helicon in Boeotia, sometime in the middle of the 8th century B.C., Hesiod is the oldest poet of the ancient Greek world, along with Homer. He is considered as the founder of Greek theological thought and he is the first to have introduced moral concepts, such as hope, justice, and hubris, in his poetry.His epic poems were influenced by the oral Ionic tradition of dactylic hexameters. Only three survive intact and others in fragments.Hesiod’s oldest poem, Theogony, narrates the creation of the world and of the gods, coming from the Night, the Sea and the union of Earth with Uranus. Works and Days is a hymn to Zeus, the powerful and just father of the Olympians. The third work, usually attributed to Hesiod, is The shield of Hercules, narrating the battle of Hercules and Cycnus, and describing the shield of the Theban hero.

EPIC POEMS

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chilli. Παρουσιάζει το&nbsp;ρόλο τους στην ανθρώπινη ιστορία,&nbsp;τη γεωγραφία, τη θρησκεία, τον πολιτισμό και την τέχνη.

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