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Cretomania - Modern Desires for the Minoan Past (Hardcover)
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Cretomania - Modern Desires for the Minoan Past (Hardcover)
Series: British School at Athens - Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies
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Since its rediscovery in the early 20th century, through
spectacular finds such as those by Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos,
Minoan Crete has captured the imagination not only of
archaeologists but also of a wider public. This is shown, among
other things, by its appearance and uses in a variety of modern
cultural practices: from the innovative dances of Sergei Diaghilev
and Ted Shawn, to public and vernacular architecture,
psychoanalysis, literature, sculpture, fashion designs, and even
neo-pagan movements, to mention a few examples. Cretomania is the
first volume entirely devoted to such modern responses to (and uses
of) the Minoan past. Although not an exhaustive and systematic
study of the reception of Minoan Crete, it offers a wide range of
intriguing examples and represents an original contribution to a
thus far underexplored aspect of Minoan studies: the remarkable
effects of Minoan Crete beyond the narrow boundaries of recondite
archaeological research. The volume is organised in three main
sections: the first deals with the conscious, unconscious, and
coincidental allusions to Minoan Crete in modern architecture, and
also discusses archaeological reconstructions; the second presents
examples from the visual and performing arts (as well as other
cultural practices) illustrating how Minoan Crete has been enlisted
to explore and challenge questions of Orientalism, religion,
sexuality, and gender relations; the third focuses on literature,
and shows how the distant Minoan past has been used to interrogate
critically more recent Greek history.
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