| Knossos & the Prophets of Modernism Contributor(s): Gere, Cathy (Author) |
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ISBN: 0226289540 ISBN-13: 9780226289540 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $21.78 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy - Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical - History | Western Europe - General |
| Dewey: 939.18 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.85 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - Western Europe |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Gere, Cathy: - Cathy Gere is associate professor of history at the University of California, San Diego, and the author of Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism. |