Introduction to Aegean Art
Introduction to Aegean Art

Author: Philip P. Betancourt

Publisher: INSTAP Academic Press

Published: 2007-12-31

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1623030846

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This textbook is a compilation of the author's more than 35 years of teaching and excavation experience in the field of Aegean Bronze Age art history and archaeology. It is geared toward an audience of undergraduate and graduate students as an introduction to the Bronze Age art objects and architecture that have been uncovered on Crete, the Greek peninsula, and the Cycladic Islands.

Aegean Bronze Age Art
Aegean Bronze Age Art

Author: Carl Knappett

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-06-25

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1108429432

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Offers an innovative theory for ancient art and its creativity, demonstrated through the rich material and visual culture of the protohistoric Aegean.

Cretan Bronze Age Pithoi
Cretan Bronze Age Pithoi

Author: Kostandinos S. Christakis

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13:

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The pithos is one of the most distinctive utilitarian forms of the Cretan Bronze Age ceramic repertoire. Because of its use as a storage container, a pithos is the foremost parameter for the evaluation of the economic organization of palatial and domestic sectors of Cretan Bronze Age society. The pithoi as pottery and their significance for the understanding of the Cretan Bronze Age economy has been the focus of a research project carried out from 1989 to 1999. This book is not a pithos handbook in the narrow sense, although the study offers a typological division of the data with comments on chronology and spatial distribution. It integrates stylistic considerations with broad fabric and technological observations in order to understand the production and consumption of pithoi.

Performance, Power and the Art of the Aegean Bronze Age
Performance, Power and the Art of the Aegean Bronze Age

Author: Senta C. German

Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13:

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Are we to believe that Late Minoan Crete was over-run with dancers and bull leapers? As Senta German shows, dancing and bull-leaping were the most prevalent themes of Late Bronze Age glyptic art although, aside from their demonstration of a social and perhaps symbolic activity, they also had a much deeper function in Late Minoan society.

Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism
Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism

Author: Cathy Gere

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2010-09-15

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0226289559

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In 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. Assembling 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.

Bulletin - Archaeological Institute of America
Bulletin - Archaeological Institute of America

Author: Archaeological Institute of America

Publisher:

Published: 1943

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13:

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Beginning with v. 5, 1914, contains the annual reports of the Institute and the schools, the minutes of the Council, the directory, and announcements of an official nature; the non technical matter formerly appearing in the quarterly Bulletin has been included in Art and archaeology since 1914. Cf. Bulletin, v. 5, Editorial note.

Human-Animal Relations in Bronze Age Crete
Human-Animal Relations in Bronze Age Crete

Author: Andrew Shapland

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-05-12

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 1009151541

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Reassesses the animal depictions of Bronze Age Crete in terms of human-animal relations rather than a love of nature.