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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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| Format: | Online Resource Książka |
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| Język: | English |
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Chicago ; London
: University of Chicago Press
, c2009
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| Dostęp online: | lizenzpflichtig |
| Podobne zapisy: | Erscheint auch als:
Knossos and the prophets of modernism |
| Dane autora: | Cathy Gere |
| Streszczenie: | 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 |
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| Deskrypcja: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-277) and index. - Description based on print version record |
| Opis fizyczny: | Online Ressource (x, 277 p.) ill. |
| ISBN: | 9780226289557 0226289559 0226289532 9780226289533 |
