Meetings with Kontoglou

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

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

   
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