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Athens: Mouseion Tis Poleos Ton Athenon, 2008 Book. New Book from Greece. Soft cover. 1st Greek Edition. Catalogue of a retrospective exhibition [ 12 Nov - 7 Dec 2008 at the Museum of the City of Athens] of the iconographic art of Ioannis Mitrakas combining the Thracian origins, the Byzantine grandeur, the orthodox spirituality of hagiography, the pulsating modern world. The artist dives his brush into the past, captures the "cultural becoming" of the present and finally with his work, an artistic ark of modern Greek culture, leaves an important artistic legacy to future generations. 119p. illus [2 copies found in Worldcat].