An edition of The Giedion World (2019)

The Giedion World

Sigfried Giedion and Carola Giedion-Welcker in Dialogue

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An edition of The Giedion World (2019)

The Giedion World

Sigfried Giedion and Carola Giedion-Welcker in Dialogue

Sigfried Giedion (1888-1968) and Carola Giedion-Welcker (1893-1979) were among the most distinguished and influential scholars of art and architecrual history during the 20th century's earlier dacades. Of particular impact was their role in connecting leading protagonists of modernism in architecture, art, and literature, such as Alvar Aalto, Hans Arp, Constantin Brancusi, Marcel Breuer, Max Ernst, Walter Gropius, Barbara Hepworth, Le Corbusier, László Moholy-Nagy, Piet Mondrian, or Sophie Taeuber-Arp. The discourses they initiated, for example on the New Vision in photography or a 'Synthesis of Arts,' have lost nothing of their relevance and provide new starting points until the present day. The estate of Sigfried and Carola Giedion-Welcker is today kept in Zurich at ETH Zurich's Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture, the Swiss Isntitute for Art Research, the University of Zurich's Institute of Romance Studies, and the James Joyce Foundation. It comprises some 16,000 letters, 10,000 photographic prints and negatives, a wealth of other papers, and a vast library. This new book offers a revaluation of Sigfried and Carola Giedion-Welcker work, impact, and lasting significance. Editor and contributors were the first to draw fully on the estate, which has been opened entirely to researchers only recently. Featuring a vast number of previously unpublished documents and other images alongside excerpts from the extensive correspondence the two maintained with their artist friends and colleagues in academia, it provides a unique and manifold insight into the 'Giedion universe.'

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English
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420

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The Giedion World: Sigfried Giedion and Carola Giedion-Welcker in Dialogue
Jun 15, 2019, Scheidegger and Spiess
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Source title: The Giedion World: Sigfried Giedion and Carola Giedion-Welcker in Dialogue

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Library of Congress
N7442, N7483.G54 G54 2019, N7483.G5 G54 2019

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Format
hardcover
Number of pages
420

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL27337843M
ISBN 10
3858818194
ISBN 13
9783858818195
LCCN
2019374405
OCLC/WorldCat
1090076320
Amazon ID (ASIN)
3858818194
Deutsche National Bibliothek
1159654727

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Work ID
OL20157083W

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