A Formative Landscape (or Why the Greek Islands are of Such Importance to Us)

A Formative Landscape (or Why the Greek Islands are of Such Importance to Us) in Auditorium at The Getty Villa


Nigel McGilchrist, art historian, classical scholar, and author of Blue Guide Greece: The Aegean Islands, describes the joys, trials, and tribulations of seven years of walking, riding, sailing, climbing, and even swimming seventy inhabited Greek Islands and explains how the unique geography of these extraordinary land- and seascapes engendered fundamental revolutions in ancient art, science, and politics.