Kote kubaneishvili biography books
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Marine Tsiklauri - The Aspects of Civic Consciousness in Georgian Literature
Nino Popiashvili - Woman writer – Georgian literary experience
Elguja Khintibidze - Georgian Literature in European Scholarship
Early Georgian literature was influenced by two distinctive civilizations-medieval Eastern Orthodox Christianity and the civilization of Persia. From the 6th to the 10th cent. the literature, produced primarily in monasteries, was ecclesiastical; translations of the Bible were the principal works. From the end of the 11th cent. to the early 13th cent., classical old Georgian poetry, secular in nature and strongly influenced by the Persian epic, enjoyed its greatest flowering. The masterpiece of this period was the epic poem by Shota Rustaveli, The Man in the Panther's Skin (tr. ). Nationalistic in feeling, it is distinguished by a remarkable metrical pattern of fluent rhymes and subtle alliterations. In this same period, the poet Chakrudkhadze wrote 20 odes, titled Tamariani,
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On top of a ridge looking down on the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, there stands a castle built of steel and polished concrete. Its turrets are wrapped in an exoskeleton of aluminium bars, and its grounds are dotted with sculptures by Henry Moore and Anish Kapoor. To one side there's a helicopter pad. Beyond it, a hundred-foot ersatz waterfall tumbles into an aqua-blue swimming pool which fills a gully of the adjacent botanical gardens. Though the gardens are public, ramblers are discreetly deterred bygd black-uniformed guards hidden among the trees. When inom first lived in Tbilisi in , during the dark, stagnant years of Eduard Shevardnadze's regime, the castle was still a huge construction site, shrouded in scaffolding--an unfamiliar sight in Georgia. I once asked my friend Kakha what it was going to be. "Oh, a businessman fryst vatten building a business centre,"
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Kote Sulaberidze belongs to the generation of Georgian artists who have witnessed the Soviet and post-Soviet Georgia and the transition between the two. This has included wars, revolutions, economic crises and finally the first democratic elections. In true Georgian nature, humor has become the critical self-defense mechanism for him too. Meeting Mr. Sulaberidze, a chubby-looking man, there is not a single negative vibe coming from him. Having been selected by the Sotheby's team for the exhibition At the Crossroads, Kote was honoured to attend the opening of the exposition. Very anxious of the audience's response, he never left his canvas; while the spectator observed his work he carefully inspected their faces trying to read the responses. Outside the gallery space he is a very cheerful and easy-going person.
Baku Magazine, Spring
Being notoriously color-blind, the artwork By Eyes of the Colour-blind, he presented on the exhibition i