Zlatyu Boyadzhiev: The visions of a great master
Language: English

     For a person to write a book like this, he has to love art, passionately and selflessly. The author possesses these qualities in full measure. But even with the love, enthusiasm and admiration, that permeate the entire book, it in no way amounts to a glorification, veneration, or canonization of Zlatyu Boyadzhiev’s image. Quite the opposite — the author has succeeded in keeping a necessary distance, allowing him the opportunity to combine an up-close and a distant view of the artist. He doesn’t carve a monument, he doesn’t paint an icon; rather, he presents a dynamic image, with all of its complexity and contradiction, from which not only do great personalities not lose anything, but they gain...

Prof. Chavdar Popov

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