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ASSOULINE 2018 CLASSICS COLLECTION – Mykonos Muse
This book chronicles the culture and society that has defined Mykonos over the past century—from its days as a hideout for such luminaries and elites as Le Corbusier and Antonis Benakis, to its moment as a sanctuary for the gay community, to its predominant party scene—all the while indulging the reader with the ruins and myths hidden there.
Located in the Cyclades and surrounded by the blue-green water of the Aegean sits whitewashed, windmill-strewn Mykonos, the island of the winds. This ancient island and those surrounding it, mythologized as the bodies of gods felled by Hercules in the time of antiquity, are older than legend and have played host to countless cultures for more than millennia. At forty-square-miles and boasting a population of only ten-thousand, the ‘Ibiza of Greece’ has become prized for gorgeous architecture, welcoming and open-minded locals, and fantastic beaches. With such names as ‘Paradise’ and ‘Super Paradise,’ the sands of these shores have captured the imaginations and hearts of industry titans, artists, and party-goers alike from all around the globe, marking it as a stable cosmopolitan destination and as a paramount it haven on the jet-set circuit.

Collected for the first time together – Mykonos Muse is a collection of Lizy’s images published by Assouline – a love letter to her sanctuary in the Cyclades.

This book chronicles the culture and society that has defined Mykonos over the past century—from its days as a hideout for such luminaries and elites as Le Corbusier and Antonis Benakis, to its moment as a sanctuary for the gay community, to its predominant party scene—all the while indulging the reader with the ruins and myths hidden there.

Unless you have seen the houses of Mykonos, you can’t pretend to be an architect. Whatever architecture has to say, it is said here. Le Corbusier

Mykonos - A place for quiet hedonism, free expression and self discovery far away from the mundanity of the real world, or the glaring eyes of the paparazzi.

Images as a testament to the magical qualities of an island fabled to be built on the bodies of giants killed by Hercules.

Lizy Manola is a Greek photographer. A freelancer, her focus is on documentary photography. For more than fteen years, she has traveled and shot in distant places, where culture and everyday life preserve their natural authenticity. She has published two books with Assouline, Certain Realities and Ethiopian Highlands. Her work has featured in solo and group exhibitions in Greece and worldwide. She lives and works in Athens and New York. Thirty years ago, she bought a house on Mykonos; she has spent endless summers holidays on the island ever since.

A strange current that makes you tingle with excitement runs through Mykonos. It has a metaphysical quality. If you really want to get to kno” Mykonos and set them free. w someone, bring them to Mykonos and set them free. Sofia Thanopoulou

A stunning collection of photographs by Lizy Manola and many more talented photographers who have been inspired by the ‘island of the winds’.

he detail of a 2nd century BC mosaic at the House of Dionysus on Delos.

A church window in Chora.

Delos, the house of Cleopatra.

Credits

Images
Lizy Manola courtesy of Assouline

Text by:
Lizy Manola with Rachel Howard and Michael Skafidas

Specifications:
10 x 13 in – 25 x 33 cm | 296 pages | over 200 illustrations | hardcover | ISBN: 9781614286905

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