Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism

by: Gere, C.

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Knossos and the prophets of modernism
Author:Cathy Gere

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 disparate as fascism and pacifism, feminism and psychoanalysis. With Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism, Cathy Gere relates the fascinating story of Evans' excavation and its long-term effects on Western culture.

Contents:
The birth of tragedy, 1822-1897
An archaeology of heroes
A prophecy of tragedy
Fascism's Greek prehistory
What Ariadne is
Stand-up tragedy, 1851-1899
The dry smell of time
Eastern questions
The road to the labyrinth
Greek defeat
Reconstructing the nation
Ariadne's lament, 1900-1913
Ariadne's throne
The great Cretan mother
Ariadne's dancing floor
The making of a goddess
The Villa Ariadne
Cretan victory
Ariadne in Chirico city
The concrete labyrinth, 1914-1935
The throne room complex
Captain of the blacks
Court ladies
Priest-king and cowgirls
Lost boys
The lady of sports
The magic ring
The psyche element
Little souls
Psyche's labyrinth, 1919-1941
Mythical method
The decline of Crete
Achilles' shield
Freudian archaeology
Psyche's muse
Crete on the couch
The battle of Crete
The rebirth of comedy, 1942-1949
Psyche reborn
Paradise before Eve
Psyche rewritten
The consort
New Crete
The birth of farce, 1950-2000
Romantic revivals
The white goddess
Black Athena
The road back to war

Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism

by: Gere, C.

• ISBN-13: 9780226289533 / 978-0-226-28953-3
• ISBN-03: 0226289532 / 0-226-28953-2
• The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2009

Price: 25,00 EURO

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