Ebook: Knossos and the prophets of modernism
Author: Evans Arthur, Evans Arthur, Gere Cathy
- Tags: Palace of Knossos (Knossos) Evans Arthur -- Sir -- 1851-1941. Arts -- 20th century -- Greek influences. Modernism (Aesthetics) Archaeology and art. Archaeology -- Political aspects. History. HISTORY -- Ancient -- General. Evans Arthur. Minoische Kultur. Rezeption. Moderne.
- Year: 2009
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press
- City: Chicago, London, Knossos
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- epub
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.