Byzantine Butterflies: Folk Paintings Of Peter Contis And Helen Contis - Softcover

Lewis, Prof. David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822957019 ISBN 13: 9780822957010

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999

Synopsis

Published in 1995 to coincide with an exhibition of the paintings of Peter Contis and Helen Contis at the Carnegie Museum of Art, this stunning book is now available again. Lewis's narrative is accompanied by forty color plates and eighty black-and-white illustrations, including documentary photographs of Pittsburgh and of shrines, churches, and villages in the Peloponnese.

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Review

The folk paintings of Peter Contis and Helen Contis depict quite a different Pittsburgh setting than one could envision from modern images: Lewis' associations with the immigrant folk artists provides plenty of detailed insights on how their backgrounds as self-taught painters blended with their unique vision of the area to produce startlingly different views. Plenty of color examples of their works accompanies an even stronger, in-depth and personal exploration of the Contis' lives and perspectives. -- Midwest Book Review

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0822957019
• ISBN 13: 9780822957010
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 160