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...
| Основен автор: | Gere, Cathy, 1964- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Chicago ; London :
University of Chicago Press,
℗♭2009.
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http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=336771 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Knossos and the prophets of modernism. |
| Резюме: |
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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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (x, 277 pages) : illustrations |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-277) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780226289557 0226289559 0226289532 9780226289533 1282775731 9781282775732 |