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1 online resource (312 pages) |
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British School at Athens - Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies ; v. 3 |
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British School at Athens - Modern Greek and Byzantine studies.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of figures; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction: Cretomania -- desiring the Minoan past in the present; PART I CRETOMANIA AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT -- CONSCIOUS, UNCONSCIOUS AND COINCIDENTAL ALLUSIONS IN MODERN ARCHITECTURE AND RECONSTRUCTIONS; 1 Orthochronicity and its (dis)contents: Cretomania and Frank Lloyd Wright; 2 Identity and freedom: some observations on Minoan and contemporary Greek architecture |
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3 The artistic reception of Minoan Crete in the period of Art Deco: the reconstruction of the palace at Knossos ... and why Arthur Evans was rightPART II CRETOMANIA IN THE VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS, AND OTHER CULTURAL PRACTICES; 4 The Minoan woman as the Oriental woman: Mariano Fortuny's Knossos scarves and Ruth St. Denis; 5 From Russia with love: Minoan Crete and the Russian Silver Age; 6 Lord of the dance: Ted Shawn's Gnossienne and its Minoan context; 7 The ocean liner Aramis: a voyage to the land of Minos and Art Deco |
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8 Cretomania and neo-paganism: the Great Mother Goddess and gay male identity in the Minoan BrotherhoodPART III CRETOMANIA IN LITERATURE -- DIALOGUES WITH RHEA GALANAKI; 9 Minoans and the postmodern critique of national history: two novels by Rhea Galanaki; 10 Rhea Galanaki's The Century of Labyrinths: a dialogue between literature and archaeology that starts with Minos Kalokairinos; 11 Growing up next door to Knossos and 'the other Ariadne'; Afterword; List of contributors and abstracts; Index; Plates |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Minoans -- Greece -- Crete
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Civilization, Modern -- 20th century.
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Civilization, Modern -- 21st century.
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Arts, Modern -- 20th century.
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Arts, Modern -- 21st century.
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
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Antiquities
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Arts, Modern
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Civilization
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Civilization, Modern
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Minoans
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Crete (Greece) -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86003304
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Crete (Greece) -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85033942
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| Subject |
Greece -- Crete
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Farnoux, Alexandre
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| ISBN |
9781351570794 |
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135157079X |
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