Restoring the Minoans: Elizabeth Price and Sir Arthur Evans

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How do archaeologists and artists reimagine what life was once like all the way through the Greek Bronze Age? How do up to date conditions influence the best way we bear in mind 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and present fresh photography of Minoan artifacts and archival photographs of the dig alongside beautiful, in the past unpublished watercolors and drawings by the archaeological illustrators and restorers who worked on the website online: Émile Gilliéron père (1850–1924), Émile Gilliéron fils (1885–1939), Piet de Jong (1887–1967), and others. An interview with Price explores how her attraction to the Sir Arthur Evans Archive was the basis for her commissioned video installation on the University of Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum and offers insight into her creative practice.

Exhibition dates: October 5, 2017–January 7, 2018

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