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Mysteries of the Snake Goddess : Art, Desire, and the Forging of History

by: Lapatin, K.

Price: 29,00 EURO

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Category: Prehistory
Code: 12284
ISBN-13: 9780618144754 / 978-0-618-14475-4
ISBN-10: 0618144757 / 0-618-14475-7
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Publication Date: 2002
Publication Place: Boston
Binding: Cloth
Pages: 274
Book Condition: New

Lapatin demonstrates that the most famous piece of Minoan art, an ivory and gold Snake Goddess, is a modern forgery. He goes on to show that much of the excepted description of ancient Minoan culture was created Sir Arthur Evans in the early twentieth century

Contents:
Prologue 1 (3)
The Boston Goddess
4 (26)
The Palace of Minos
30 (36)
The Divine Mother
66 (25)
Boy-Gods, Bull Leapers, and Corseted Goddesses
91 (29)
Evans and the Gillierons: Making and Marketing the Past
120 (20)
The Road to Boston
140 (13)
Snake Goddesses, Fake Goddesses!
153 (23)
The Uncertainties of Science
176 (15)
Appendix 1: The Cast of Characters 191 (3)
Appendix 2: Some Unprovenienced Cretan Statuettes 194 (2)
Appendix 3: Analytical Report on the Ivory Snake Goddess, by Richard Newman, Head of Scientific Research, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 196 (9)
Notes 205 (22)
Bibliography 227

Subjects:
Antiquities
Archeologische vondsten
Art minoen Faux
Art, Minoan Forgeries
Boston (Mass.) Museum of Fine Arts
Constructivisme
Crete (Greece) Antiquities
Crète (Grèce) Antiquités
Elfenbeinschnitzerei
Evans, Arthur, Sir, 1851-1941
Excavations (Archaeology)
Excavations (Archaeology) Greece Crete
Fouilles (Archéologie) Grèce Crète
Greece Crete
Greece Knossos (Extinct city)
Knossos (Extinct city) Antiquities
Kunstfälschung
Minoans
Minoens
Minoische Kultur
Minoïsche cultuur
Schlangengöttin
Sculpture antique Grèce Crète
Sculpture chryséléphantine Grèce Crète
Sculpture, Ancient
Sculpture, Ancient Greece Crete
Sculpture, Chryselephantine
Sculpture, Chryselephantine Greece Crete
Statuettes
Vervalsing

x, 274 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm

 

 
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Mysteries of the Snake Goddess : Art, Desire, and the Forging of History

by: Lapatin, K.

  • ISBN-13: 9780618144754 / 978-0-618-14475-4
  • ISBN-03: 0618144757 / 0-618-14475-7
  • Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 2002

Price: 29,00 EURO

(in stock)