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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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 ;
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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