Description: In the spring of 1900, British archaeologist Arthur Evans began to excavate the palace of Knossos on Crete, bringing ancient Greek legends to life just as a new century dawned amid far-reaching questions about human history, art, and culture. With Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism, Cathy Gere relates the fascinating story of Evans's excavation and its long-term effects on Western culture. After the World War I left the Enlightenment dream in tatters, the lost paradise that Evans offered in the concrete labyrinth-pacifist and matriarchal, pagan and cosmic-seemed to offer a new way forward for writers, artists, and thinkers such as Sigmund Freud, James Joyce, Giorgio de Chirico, Robert Graves, and Hilda Doolittle. Assembling a brilliant, talented, and eccentric cast at a moment of tremendous intellectual vitality and wrenching change, Cathy Gere paints an unforgettable portrait of the age of concrete and the birth of modernism.
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EAN: 9780226289540
UPC: 9780226289540
ISBN: 9780226289540
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Book Title: Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism by Gere, Cat
Item Length: 22.6 cm
Item Height: 228 mm
Item Width: 152 mm
Author: Cathy Gere
Publication Name: Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Subject: Archaeology
Publication Year: 2011
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 451 g
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
