# Michael Dunev > Art&Literature ## Pages - [A tale about a dog](https://michaeldunev.com/chronicles/dog/): Download pdf For Ring Lardner Over dinner the other night, I was asked for the umpteenth time: what had brought us to this part of the world, isolated as we were, in a small village where nobody knew us? What was it that had impelled our decision to move here? I paused and reflected that it could only have been an attack of temporary insanity. One of those spur of the moment decisions that affect you for the rest of your life and you end up wondering how it all started. My wife and I were in the car, edging […] - [Broken Stones and Ancient Trails](https://michaeldunev.com/chronicles/broken-stones/): Pavane for a Pachamama During the 1970s I spent several years living in Peru—first in Cuzco, then in a small village in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, and finally in a centuries-old mill located in a lush canyon overlooking the Valley. At that time Peru was undergoing profound changes, the result of the 1968 coup d’état led by General Velasco Alvarado and his Junta. This was especially the case in the Andean countryside where, after centuries of living under a quasi-feudal economy, the indigenous population saw the Agrarian Reform rapidly transform their rural communities into socialist cooperatives, replacing many […] - [A sojourn in Russia](https://michaeldunev.com/chronicles/russia/): Download pdf TRAVELS WITH ART IN POST-SOVIET RUSSIA We were initiating our descent and would be landing in Helsinki within the hour. My wife Nance and I had slept well on the flight from San Francisco and were looking forward to the days ahead. With us on the flight were Mark Perlman, a Pittsburgh-born professor of painting at Sonoma State University, descendant of Lithuanian Jews, and Alek Rapoport, a Ukranian-born artist, living in exile in the US. The purpose of our trip was to attend the exhibitions of their paintings, collectively titled “California Branches—Russian Roots,” that were to take place […] - [Dance of the boar](https://michaeldunev.com/chronicles/boar/): Download pdf My five passengers in the van were sick as dogs. They’d been retching and heaving since waking up that morning and were spending most of the ride to the sea dozing off and wallowing in self-pity. Curiously, I felt fine, though something in last night’s dinner seemed to have affected the rest. Worst of all was the Old Turkiye Veteran, who considered himself an expert, having lived in-country with his family for several years in his youth. Confident of Pamukkale’s medicinal properties, he had drunk from the spring with great élan and now his belly had bloated up […] - [A fish story](https://michaeldunev.com/chronicles/fish/): Download pdf At dawn on the twelfth day we raised the twin crests of Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea shimmering under a clear sky on the Southeast horizon. It had been a brisk run since leaving Sausalito, the trades well abaft the beam, allowing us to sail for days on end with only the slightest of trim adjustments to the spinnaker. The sailing had been as pleasant as one could have hoped, and the three of us had finally stowed our foul weather gear, glad to finally be in the limpid tropics after so many cold days and nights. But […] - [Welcome](https://michaeldunev.com/): This website covers the history of the Michael Dunev Gallery in California and Catalonia as well as several of the author’s writings. Please note: automatic translation selector for numerous languages is available in the menu.Our apologies, therefore, for the poor translations that may result. THE GALLERY Art since 1982. THE CHRONICLES Musings, recollections and chronicles of some journeys taken. THE PHOTOGRAPHS A website featuring Michael Dunev’s black and white photography since 1970. CONTACT - [Chronicles](https://michaeldunev.com/chronicles/): Some reflections and reminiscences. Anecdotes and travel notes retrieved from ship’s logs and old notebooks, jotted down before they’re lost in the haze of oblivion. Some narratives are short, humorous tales which I hope you’ll find amusing, others will require a longer read. A FISH STORY Native Hawaiians teach a haole something about fish THE DANCE OF THE BOAR A fête dansante in a Turkish cove A DOG’S TALE A parable about a family’s journey into exile A SOJOURN IN RUSSIA Travelling with art in post-Soviet Russia BROKEN STONES, ANCIENT TRAILS Journeying on horseback in the Andes - [Art](https://michaeldunev.com/art/): Art must inhabit a dreamlike place, beyond sensory barriers. Our perception of art enters through the senses, the eyes, the ears…but its understanding resides in the heart, not in the intellect. The function of art is to open doors to a place outside our experience, a place where beauty reigns. It was with this premise, and the dream of promoting an art of conscience that transcended fashions, trends or regional politics, that the Michael Dunev Gallery was founded in 1982 in San Francisco, California. An old etching press inherited from a friend prompted in 1991 the founding of Aurobora Press, […] - [Privacy Policy](https://michaeldunev.com/privacy-policy/): Who we areIn compliance with the GDPR Privacy Law of 25 May, 2018 and article 10 of Law 34/2002, of July 11, services of the Information Society and Electronic Commerce (LSSICE) the data identifying the holder www.michaeldunev.com set out below:Our website address is: https://michaeldunev.com.Michael Dunev17257 Torroella de Montgri (Girona)Contact: info(at)dunev.comPhone +34 616 715 430www.michaeldunev.com is registered by Hostinger and cannot be used in connection with other contents, products or services that are not owned by or for which you are authorised to include in the website or in any manner likely to cause confusion among users. Therefore reserves the right to prevent […] ## Optional - [Agent (MCP protocol)](websites-agents.hostinger.com/michaeldunev.com/mcp) [comment]: # (Generated by Hostinger Tools Plugin)