In Commemoration of the 500th Anniversary of the First Printed Armenian Book, Dr. James Russell, Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies at Harvard University, will give a lecture at Armenian Library and Museum of America (ALMA) on May 31.
The lecture to be presented is titled "Charent’s Book of the Way: Text and Icon of a Soviet Armenian Apocalypse."
“The Book of the Way (Girk’ Chanaparhi) was the last book of Yeghishe Charents, his greatest, and a book that was burnt and became dangerous to own. It is also the most extraordinary work of graphic art in modern Armenian: Hakob Kojoyan and the poet collaborated closely on the design, which encodes an extraordinary message of transformation and apocalypse that is in plain sight, but has perhaps not been deciphered hitherto.” Dr. Russell says.
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