Still thinking about the playing cards. I wish I knew more about what the artist used as inspiration, but a bandura player is shown in the same deck, http://trendland.net/2010/08/30/vladislav-erkos-playing-cards/vladislav-erko-playing-cards-11/ and that musician is much different. So the artist has historical sensitivity in these. He, the kobzar, is with his eyes open and even shows an entirely different personality, with two guns. "Cossack bandurists were actual witnesses of the great battles about which they sang." The hurdy-gurdy player is a "lira" player & vocalist, his hurdy gurdy being called a lira, and the player can be called a lirnyk. The lirnyk is blind and tattered. Here is a wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lirnyk and to mention that the book once more, in english, Kononenko, Natalie (1998). Ukrainian Minstrels: "And the blind shall sing".... M.E. Sharpe. ISBNÂ 0765601443; it goes into great detail; the only drawback to the book, just from our standpoint, is that it is a sort of thesis work on the bandura player or kobzar, along with the lirnik or blind, lira player.
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