Judy Schavrien

The New Ancient Greeks Judy Schavrien

This is a book of 30 scroll paintings of ancient Greek characters--and the characters still live in our dreams and on the public stage today: Helen, the femme fatale, Odysseus, the lost veteran, Hecuba and Antigone, the protesters, and Oedipus the king whose rage and passion spark a civil war. "Judy Schavrien's incisive, often corrosive, always haunting portraits explore the tormented souls of many of the key figures of Greek tragedy. In these searingly beautiful paintings and in her erudite commentary on the plays, Schavrien offers lively political and psychological parallels with our world today. This is a master artist and scholar's urgent call for deeper understanding of our troubled universe." Joseph McBride, film historian and Professor, San Francisco State University