The Eternal Present, Volume I : : The Beginnings of Art /

The Eternal Present, Volume I : : The Beginnings of Art / / Sigfried Giedion.

A groundbreaking reevaluation of paleolithic art through the lens of modernism, from the acclaimed historian of art and architectureIn The Beginnings of Art, Sigfried Giedion, best known as a historian of architecture, shifts his attention to art and its very origins. Breaking with an earlier, mater...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts eBook Package
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Giedion, Sigfried,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2023]
©1962
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts ; 35
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Physical Description:1 online resource (610 p.) :; 371 b/w illus. 5 maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART I ART A FUNDAMENTAL EXPERIENCE
  • Introduction
  • The framework
  • The symbol
  • The animal
  • The human figure
  • Space conception
  • Constancy and change
  • PART II THE MEANS OF EXPRESSION IN PRIMEVAL ART
  • ABSTRACTION
  • TRANSPARENCY, SIMULTANEITY, MOVEMENT
  • PART III SYMBOLIZATION
  • THE SYMBOL IN PRIMEVAL ART
  • HANDS AS MAGIC SYMBOLS
  • MANIFOLD MEANINGS OF CIRCULAR FORMS
  • FERTILITY SYMBOLS
  • THE GREAT SYMBOLS
  • PART IV THE SACRED ANIMAL
  • Introduction
  • Animal cult and high civilizations
  • THE ANIMAL AND THE RELIGIOUS IMPULSE
  • THE ANIMAL AND TOTEMISM
  • THE ANIMAL AND THE EVOLUTION OF PRIMEVAL ART
  • THE EARLIEST BEGINNINGS OF ART
  • THE MAGDALENIAN ERA
  • THE AGE OF SCULPTURE
  • THE GREAT COMPOSITIONS
  • PART V THE HUMAN FIGURE
  • Introduction
  • Sculpture in relief and in the round
  • VENUS FIGURINES
  • FIGURES WITHOUT HEADS
  • FEMALE AND MALE RELIEFS
  • MASKS AND HYBRID CREATURES
  • PART VI THE SPACE CONCEPTION OF PREHISTORY
  • Introduction
  • Was there a space conception in prehistory?
  • On the structure of caverns and architecture
  • Freedom of approach to all surfaces
  • The coming change
  • Prehistoric space conception and contemporary art
  • The eternal present
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • LIST OF WORKS CITED
  • INDEX

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