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Transfixed by prehistory : an inquiry into modern art and time / Maria Stavrinaki ; translated by Jane Marie Todd.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stavrinaki, Maria, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Saisis par la préhistoire. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Time--Philosophy.
- Time.
- Time and art.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (441 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Zone Books, 2022.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the French.
- Contents:
- "We slip away from ourselves" : the discovery and internalization of the Earth's age (eighteenth to twentieth centuries)
- Reconstituting the antiquity of humankind and of art
- The artificiality of prehistory : a disjunctive genealogy of art
- The paradox of the Neolithic : rupture and permanence, order and disorder
- Prehistory in the Atomic Age.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 03, 2022).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Stavrinaki, Maria. Transfixed by prehistory
- ISBN:
- 9781942130666
- 194213066X
- Publisher Number:
- 40031175916
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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