Corinth Publication: Kourelis, Hesperia 86:4, 2017
Collection:   Corinth
Name:   Kourelis, Hesperia 86:4, 2017
Title:   Flights of Archaeology: Peschke's Acrocorinth
Author:   Kourelis, Kostis
Series Title:   Hesperia
Volume:   86:4
Publication Place:   Princeton
Date:   2017
Abstract:   Georg Vinko von Peschke (1900-1959) was a celebrated artist in 1930s Greece and a staff member of the American School excavations in Corinth, Isthmia, and Olynthos. His large work Acrocorinth (1932), painted while carrying out the castle's architectural survey, provides insights into the creative dimensions behind the School's scholarly identity. Peschke brought archaeological practices into a direct conversation with modernist poetics that sought to incorporate old historical landscapes with new and radical conceptions of the self. Through Peschke, American archaeologists turned Corinth into an interdisciplinary laboratory that explored the interface of digging, dwelling, and thinking.
Page:   723-784
Area:   Acrocorinth
JSTOR:   http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2972/hesperia.86.4.0723
References:   Image: digital 2014 11157