A Sampling of Dr. Kouymjian's Articles

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1969 Kouymjian, D., A Numismatic History of Southeastern Caucasia and Adharbayjan Based on the Islamic Coinage of the 5th/11th to the 7th/13th Centuries, doctoral dissertation, Armenian Studies Program, Near and Middle Eastern Languages and Civilization (Columbia University, New York, 1969), iii, xii, 466 pages, Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, no. 70-17,025.

1974 Kouymjian, D., "On the Historical Tracks of the Ererouk Basilica," Hask, Antelias, vol. XLIII, nos. 7-8 (1974), pp. 296-310 (in Armenian); Italian trans., "Traccie storiche della basilica di Ererouk," Ricerca sull' Architettura Armena, vol. 15, Fonti, II, Milan, 1977, pp. 57-72.

1978 Kouymjian, D., "The Problem of the Zoomorphic Figure in the Iconography of Armenian Pentecost: A Preliminary Report," Atti del Primo Simposio Internazionale de Arte Armena, Bergamo, 1975 (Venice, 1978), pp. 403-413.

1981 Kouymjian, D., "The Classical Tradition in Armenian Art," Revue des études arméniennes, vol. XV (1981), pp. 263-288.

1984 Kouymjian, D., "Destruction des monuments historiques arméniens, poursuite de la politique de génocide," Le Crime de Silence (Flammarion, Paris, 1984), pp. 295-310; English trans., "The Destruction of Armenian Historical Monuments as a Continuation of the Turkish Policy of Genocide," The Crime of Silence, Permanent Peoples' Tribunal (London: Zed, 1985), pp. 173-185.

1986 Kouymjian, D., Introduction to Dickran Kouymjian, William Saroyan: An Armenian Trilogy, edited with an introduction and glossary (Fresno: The Press at California State University, 1986), 195 pages, 57 illustrations, pp. 1-38. PDF Version

1986 Baltrusaitis, Jurgis & Dickran Kouymjian, "Julfa on the Arax and Its Funerary Monuments," Armenian Studies/Études arméniennes: In Memoriam Haïg Berbérian, Dickran Kouymjian editor (Lisbon: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 1986), pp. 9-53.

1989 Kouymjian, D., "The Status of Artists and Intellectuals in Soviet Armenia," Armenian Review, vol.42, no. 3 (167), Autumn, (1989, published 1990), pp. 53-62.

1990 Kouymjian, D., "Le sort des monuments architecturaux arméniens depuis les voyages de H. F. B. Lynch," Fragments d'un discours d'Arménie : photographies originales de H. F. B. Lynch, Artemis and Berdj Achdjian, editors, Paris, 1990, pp. 3-7.

1990/2007 Kouymjian, D., "Requiem pour Paradjanov. Réflexions à propos d’un collage," Haratch, Art and Thought (October, 1990), p. 3, reprinted Paradjanov le magnifique, 13 February—2 April 2007, catalogue (Paris: École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, 2007), pp. 156-159.

1991 Kouymjian, D., "Les tapis à inscriptions arméniennes," R. H. Kévorkian and Berdj Achdjian, Tapis et textiles arméniens (Marseille, 1991), pp. 67-72.

1991/2003 Kouymjian, D., Excerpt from Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, vol. 137, Gale, 2003, pages 172-186, Introduction to Warsaw Visitor and Tales from the Vienna Streets: The Last Two Plays of William Saroyan, Fresno: California State University Press, 1991" pp. 1-37; also online Gale Literature Resource Center.

1992 Kouymjian, D., "Armenian Art: An Overview," An article for a project that never material, based essentially on the author's The Arts of Armenia, Lisbon: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 1992.

1992 Kouymjian, D., "Les Arméniens aux Etats-Unis," published in a special issue Arménie : 3000 ans d'histoire, of Les Dossiers d'Archéologie, Paris, no. 177, December 1992, pp. 136-138.

1992 Kouymjian, D., Review of Robert Thomson, The History of Lazar P'arpec'i published in the Armenian Review, vol. 45, no.3 (Autumn 1992, published April 1994), pp. 72-74.

1993 Kouymjian, D., "The Evolution of Armenian Gospel Illumination: The Formative Period (9th-11th Centuries)," Armenian and the Bible, edited by Christoph Burchard, Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1993, pp. 125-142.

1993 Kouymjian, D., "Les Arméniens et le cinéma américan," Le Cinéma Arménien, Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1993, pp. 104-122.

1994 Kouymjian, D., "Filmmaking in the Armenian Diaspora of America," The material in this essay was taken from two earlier articles: Dickran Kouymjian, "Le Cinéma arménien aux Etats-Unis," Armenia, Paris, June (1984), pp. 44-48, and D. Kouymjian, "Les Arméniens et le cinéma américan," Le Cinéma Arménien, Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1993, pp. 104-122.

1994 Kouymjian, D., "From Disintegration to Reintegration: Armenians at the Start of the Modern Era, XVIth-XVIIth Centuries," Revue du Monde Arménien, vol. I (1994), pp. 9-18.

1995 Kouymjian, D., "Armenian Iconography: A New Approach," Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies, vol. 6 (1992, 1993, issued 1995), pp. 201-222.

1995 Kouymjian, D., "Art In Exile: Armenian Artists of the Nineteenth & Twentieth Centuries," published in German as "[Armenischen] Künstler in der Diaspora," Armenien, Wiederentdeckung einer alten Kulturlandschaft, exhibition catalogue, 14 January-17 April 1995, Bochum: Bochum Museum, 1995, pp. 363-366, illustrated.

1995 Kouymjian, D., "Whitman and Saroyan: Singing the Song of America," Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 10, no. 1 (Summer, 1992), pp.16-24, anthologized in Critical Essays on William Saroyan, edited by Harry Keyishian, New York: Simon & Schuster Macmillan, 1995, pp. 72-80.

1995 Kouymjian, D., Reviews of Bernard Coulie, Répertoire des bibliothèques et des catalogues de manuscrits arméniens, Turnhout, 1992, and idem, Répertoire des manuscrits arméniens/Census of Armenian Manuscripts, Liste des sigle sutilisés pour designer les manuscrits, Leiden, 1994, published in the Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies, vol. 6 (1992-3, issued 1995), pp. 255-258.

1997 Kouymjian, D., "Armenia from the Fall of the Cilician Kingdom (1375) to the Forced Emigration under Shah Abbas (1604)," The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times, Richard Hovannisian, editor (New York: St. Martin Press, 1997), vol. 2, pp. 1-50.

1997 Kouymjian, D., "Identifying the Apostles in Armenian Narrative Miniatures," From Byzantium to Iran: Armenian Studies in Honour of Nina G. Garsoïan, Jean-Pierre Mahé and Robert W. Thomson, editors, Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1997, pp. 453-474.

1998 Kouymjian, D., "A Unique Armeno-Greek Papyrus", Etudes Coptes V, edited by M. Rassart-Debergh, Paris, Louvain: Editions Peeters, 1998, pp. 165-169.

1998 Kouymjian, D., "Armenia in the Age of Columbus," Armenian Mind, vol. II, no. 1 (1998), pp. 109-126.

1998 Kouymjian, D., "Der Kuenstler William Saroyan," ADK (Armenisch-Deutsche Korrespondenz), 1998, no. 4, pp. 32-33.

1999 Kouymjian, D., "Confiscation and Destruction: A Manifestation of the Genocidal Process," Armenian Forum, vol.1, no. 3 (Autumn 1998), pp. 1-12, the original French version published as "La confiscation des biens et la destruction des monuments historiques comme manifestations du processus génocidaire," L'Actualite du Genocide des Armeniens, Paris, 1999, pp. 213-224.

1999 Kouymjian, D., "L'iconographie de l'Histoire d'Alexandre le Grand dans les manuscrits arméniens," Alexandre le Grand dans les littératures occidentales et proche-orientales. Actes du Colloque de Paris, 27-29 novembre 1997, Laurence Harf-Lancner, Claire Kappler et François Suard, eds. (Nanterre: Université Paris X, 1999), pp. 95-112, with six color plates.

2001 Kouymjian, D., "Preface," for the catalogue of the exhibit Modern Icons: Contemporary Artists and the Legacy of the Armenian Illuminated Manuscripts, Brand Library and Art Center, Glendale Library,15 September- 20 October 2001, pp. 2-3.

2002 Kouymjian, D., Review of Robert Thomson, The Lawcode ["Datastanagirk'"] of Mxit'ar Gosh, Dutch Studies in Armenian Language and Literature, No. 6, Amsterdam-Atlanta: Editions Rodopi, 2000, in Speculum, vol. 77/3 (July 2002), pp. 1026-27.

2005 Kouymjian, D., "The Right Hand of St. Gregory and other Armenian Arm Relics," Les objets de la mémoire. Pour une approche comparatiste des reliques et de leur culte, Philippe Borgeaud and Youri Volokhine, eds. (Geneva: Peter Lang, 2005), pp. 215-240.

2005 Kouymjian, D., "Sirarpie Der Nersessian (1896-1989). Pioneer of Armenian Art History," Women Medievalists and the Academy, Jane Chance, ed. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005), pp. 482-493.

2006 Kouymjian, D., "Armenian Bookbinding from Manuscript to Printed Book (Sixteenth to Nineteenth Century)," Gazette du livre médiéval, n° 49, automne 2006, pp. 1-14.

2006 Kouymjian, D., "Chinese Motifs in Thirteenth-Century Armenian Art: The Mongol Connection," Beyond the Legacy of Genghis Khan, Linda Komaroff editor, Leiden: Brill, 2006, pp. 303-324, pls. 23-25, figs. 58-67.

2007 Kouymjian, D., "Armenia Textiles: An Overview," English version of an article entitled, "Textiles arméniens: une riche palette," Trames d'Arménie : tapis et broderies sur les chemins de l'exil (1900-1940), Muséon Arlaten, 16 June 2007–6 January 2008, catalogue Dominique Serena, ed. (Arles, 2007), pp. 29-35.