Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism

Gere, Cathy

doi:10.7208/chicago/9780226289557.001.0001

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“…45 In 1880, the Archaeological Institute of America tried to create its own legacy by launching two archaeological expeditions, one in New Mexico and one in Assos at Turkey; see Sheftel 2002, 106-107. 46 Shanks 1996, 99-100;Gere 2009, 39. 47 Mühlenbruch 2010, 23.…”

Section: Schliemann's Smithsonian Plans and The Smithsonian Institutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Figures of modernity: Heinrich Schiemann, Kate Field and a Smithsonian Collection

Flouda

2019

Classical Art and Archaeology

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This paper intends to document how an assemblage of 177 archaeological objects excavated in Troy in the nineteenth century became entangled within the historical circumstances of the era and Heinrich Schliemann’s continuous social movement. The circumstances that led to the donation of this Trojan collection of antiquities by Sophia Schliemann to the Smithsonian Institution in 1893 and the earlier background of the story shed light to the protagonists of this historical event, namely Heinrich Schliemann, the U.S. journalist Kate Field and the U.S. diplomat Truxtun Beale. The story of the movement of the artifacts from the Troas, to Greece and, ultimately, to Washington DC is mostly based on archival research. The paper also explores how facets of Schliemann’s archaeological conduct were enhanced by universal social aspects of modernity, such as the connection with capital and the use of the public sphere profile. It also discusses how the donation of the Trojan collection attracted media attention by making an appeal to the late nineteenth˗century American antiquarianism and, eventually, made the archaeology of the distant Troas -- at that point a part of the Ottoman Empire -- a subject of public interest for the Americans. Ultimately, the Smithsonian ‘Schliemann Collection’ acquired some form of agency fostering future research and providing the foundations for American involvement in the exploration of Aegean prehistory in the twentieth century, mainly through Carl Blegen’s excavations.

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Section: Schliemann's Smithsonian Plans and The Smithsonian Institutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Figures of modernity: Heinrich Schiemann, Kate Field and a Smithsonian Collection

Flouda

2019

Classical Art and Archaeology

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“…The Minoan artworks available to us today are to a large extent the restorations, reconstructions, and artistic variations. Even the Minoan world, according to some researchers, was invented by Evans [13]. Archeological excavations in the second half of the 20 th century challenged the very idea of the peaceful Minoans and the Golden Age of humanity: "Soon after the 1960s, when the Minoans had been conscripted into the popular imagination as a prehistoric version of hippie culture (lilies pointing to the ancient equivalent of flower power), the archaeological mood changed.…”

Section: La Parisienne Fresco the Heraklion Archeological Museum Cretementioning

confidence: 99%

Civilization of Bronze Age Crete

Danylova

2019

Мiждисциплiнарнi Дослiдження Складних Систем

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“…Critical assessments of the Minoan Palace-Temple model and its conceptual and theoretical basis have, however, significantly increased in incidence over the last two decades (Bintliff 1984;Farnoux 1995;MacGillivray 2001;Hamilakis 2002b; Papadopoulos 2005;Darcque et al 2006;Hamilakis and Momigliano 2006;Gere 2009). Doubts have been expressed about the supposed palatial control over trade (Branigan 1989;Warren 1985: 101), the scope and redistributive nature of the palace economy (Halstead 1992;, the storage capacity of the palaces (Strasser 1997), and the extent to which they may have controlled the production of the fineware ceramics that they consumed (Day and Wilson 1998).…”

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confidence: 99%