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Cretomania : modern desires for the Minoan past
Introduction / Nicoletta MOMIGLIANO -- Part 1. Cretomania and the built environment : conscious, unconscious, and coincidental allusions in modern architecture and reconstructions -- Orthochronicity and its (dis)contents : Cretomania and Frank Lloyd Wright / Donald PREZIOSI -- Identity and freedom :...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT
: Ashgate,
, 2016
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| Online Access: | lizenzpflichtig |
| Author Notes: | edited by Nicoletta Momigliano and Alexandre Farnoux |
| Summary: | Introduction / Nicoletta MOMIGLIANO -- Part 1. Cretomania and the built environment : conscious, unconscious, and coincidental allusions in modern architecture and reconstructions -- Orthochronicity and its (dis)contents : Cretomania and Frank Lloyd Wright / Donald PREZIOSI -- Identity and freedom : some observations on Minoan and contemporary Greek architecture / Dimitris PHILIPPIDES, Odysseas SGOUROUS -- The artistic reception of Minoan Crete in the period of Art Deco : the reconstruction of the palace at Knossos, and why Arthur Evans was right / Fritz BLAKOLMER -- Part 2. Cretomania in the visual and performing arts, and other cultural practices -- The Minoan woman as the oriental woman : Mariano Fortuny's Knossos scarves and Ruth St. Denis / Ilaria CALOI -- From Russia with love : Minoan Crete and the Russian silver age / Nicoletta MOMIGLIANO -- Lord of the dance : Ted Shawn's Gnossienne and its Minoan context / Christine MORRIS -- The ocean-liner Aramis : a voyage to the land of Minos and Art Deco / Anais BOUCHER -- Cretomania and neo-Paganism : the great Mother Goddess and gay male identity in the Minoan brotherhood / Bryan BURNS -- Part 3. Cretomania in literature : dialogues with Rhea Galanaki -- Minoans and the postmodern critique of national history : two novels by Rhea Galanaki / Roderick BEATON -- Rhea Galanaki's The century of the labyrinths : a dialogue between literature and archaeology that starts with Minos Kalokairinos / Katerina KOPAKA -- Growing up next door to Knossos and "the other Ariadne" / Rhea GALANAKI -- Afterword -- Afterthoughts / Michael FOTIADIS -- List of participants and abstracts. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9781315095332 9781351570770 |
