{"product_id":"knossos-and-the-prophets-of-modernism-9780226289533","title":"Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKnossos and the Prophets of Modernism\u003c\/strong\u003e by Gere, Cathy. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780226289533.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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’s excavation and its long-term effects on Western culture. After the 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.\nAssembling a brilliant, talented, and eccentric cast at a moment of tremendous intellectual vitality and wrenching change, Cathy Gere paints an unforgettable portrait of the age of concrete and the birth of modernism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45255140999221,"sku":"ByrdShop_0226289532","price":29.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780226289533_fe9862f6-2563-4b4b-9035-80f43705ef48.jpg?v=1779923144","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/knossos-and-the-prophets-of-modernism-9780226289533","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}