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Restoring the Minoans : Elizabeth Price and Sir Arthur Evans

Title
Restoring the Minoans : Elizabeth Price and Sir Arthur Evans / edited by Jennifer Y. Chi ; including contributions by Jennifer Y. Chi, Rachel Herschamn, and Kenneth Lapatin.
Publication
  • [New York] : Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University ; Princeton and Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2017]
  • ©2017

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Additional Authors
  • Chi, Jennifer
  • Herschman, Rachel
  • Lapatin, Kenneth D. S.
  • New York University. Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, host institution, organizer. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/his http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/orm
  • Ashmolean Museum, organizer. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/orm
Description
132 pages : color illustrations; 19 x 24 cm
Summary
How do archaeologists and artists reimagine what life was like during the Greek Bronze Age? How do contemporary conditions influence the way we understand the ancient past? This innovative book considers two imaginative restorations of the ancient world that test the boundaries of interpretation and invention by bringing together the discovery of Minoan culture by the British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans (1851-1941) and the work of the Turner Prize-winning video artist Elizabeth Price (b. 1966). Featured essays examine Evans's interpretation and restoration of the Knossos palace and present fresh photography of Minoan artifacts and archival photographs of the dig alongside beautiful, previously unpublished watercolors and drawings by the archaeological illustrators and restorers who worked on the site: Emile Gillieron pere (1850-1924), Emile Gillieron fils (1885-1939), Piet de Jong (1887-1967), and others. 00Exhibition: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, United Kingdom (05.10.2017 - 07.01.2018).
Subjects
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • Published on the occasion of an exhibit at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, October 5, 2017-January 7, 2018.
  • "This exhibition has been organized by the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University in collaboration with the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford"--page 132.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Introduction / Rachel Herschman -- An interview with Elizabeth Price / Jennifer Y. Chi -- "Reconstituting" the Minoans / Kenneth Lapatin.
ISBN
  • 9780691178691
  • 0691178690
LCCN
2017937976
OCLC
  • ocn983825002
  • 983825002
  • SCSB-9550251
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries