Modernist minotaurs

Times Online ^ | June 3, 2009 | Tom Holland

[SunkenCiv]

Arthur Evans, the eccentric Englishman who led the excavations, was, if anything, even more creative in his reconstruction of the Bronze Age than Schliemann had earlier been. The fabulously ancient palace of Knossos enjoys, as Gere points out in her arresting first sentence, "the dubious distinction of being one of the first reinforced concrete buildings ever erected on the island". The complex of buildings gawped at by thousands upon thousands of tourists every year owes less to the masons of the Minoan age than it does to the example of modernist architecture. On Crete, the archaic and the contemporary, both of them recreated in the image of the other, would end up generating a cultural Möbius Strip. "Not only did the Minoan past provide inspiration to the modern movement, it was itself a modernist structure, enfolding past and present into a closed loop of aesthetic self-referentiality."

[SunkenCiv]

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Minotaur: Sir Arthur Evans and the Archaeology of the Minoan Myth by Joseph Alexander MacGillivray Hardcover Paperback	Mysteries Of The Snake Goddess: Art, Desire, And The Forging Of History by Kenneth Lapatin Bargain Hardcover Hardcover	The Secret of Crete by Hans Georg Wunderlich First Edition Hardcover Paperback Mass Market Paperback Unknown Binding

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(in part, MacGillivray contends that Evans's creative drive stemmed from his suppressed homosexuality)

[SunkenCiv]

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[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

"...enfolding past and present into a closed loop of aesthetic self-referentiality..."

I'll have whatever he's having.

[ApplegateRanch]

Somehow, I thought it was going to be something more along these lines...

[Fred Nerks]

from the air...

[SunkenCiv]

:’D

[SunkenCiv]

They’ll stone you when you try to go home.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

They’ll stone you when you’re playing your guitar!

[SunkenCiv]