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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' excavation and its long-term effects on Western culture. After 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, Gere paints an unforgettable portrait of the age of concrete and the birth of modernism.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History History: earliest times to present day

• Full title: Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism
• Author: Cathy Gere
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288
• EAN: 9780226289540
• ISBN: 0226289540
• ID: 04545090
• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• Weight: 396 g
• Dimensions: 154 × 228 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 20. May 2011

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