Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism
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aesthetics
ancient greece
archaeology
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art
athena
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crete
disillusionment
enlightenment
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excavation
gender
giorgio de chirico
goddess
heroism
hilda doolittle
history
james joyce
knossos
labyrinth
legends
literature
modernism
myth
mythology
nonfiction
palace
paradise
psyche
robert graves
royalty
sigmund freud
throne
utopia
women
Product details
- ISBN 9780226289533
- Weight: 595g
- Dimensions: 16 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 15 May 2009
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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' excavation and its long-term effects on Western culture. After 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, Gere paints an unforgettable portrait of the age of concrete and the birth of modernism.
Cathy Gere is associate professor of history at the University of California, San Diego, and the author of The Tomb of Agamemnon.
