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Knossos and the prophets of modernism

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. Over the next three decades, Evans engaged in an unpreced...

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Dokumenttyp: Online-Ressource Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press , c2009
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Bibliogr. Hinweis:Erscheint auch als: Knossos and the prophets of modernism
Verantwortlich:Cathy Gere
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Zusammenfassung: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. Over the next three decades, Evans engaged in an unprecedented reconstruction project, creating a complex of concrete buildings on the site that owed at least as much to modernist architecture as they did to Bronze Age remains. In the process, he fired the imaginations of a whole generation of intellectuals and artists, whose work would drive movements as
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-277) and index. - Description based on print version record
Beschreibung:Online Ressource (x, 277 p.) ill.
ISBN:9780226289557
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0226289532
9780226289533