The Eternal Present (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Sigfried Giedion
- First Published: 1962
- Type of Work: Art history
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Arts
- Subjects: Culture, Art or artists, Creative process, Symbolism, Painting or painters, Egypt or Egyptians, Middle East, Architecture or architects
Form and Content
These two books were published as separate works, not as volumes 1 and 2. They are, nevertheless, two halves of a single study. Sigfried Giedion’s last work (the manuscript was delivered to the publisher the day before he died), Architektur und das Phanomen des Wandels: Die drei Raumkonzeptionen in der Architektur (1969; Architecture and the Phenomenon of Transition: The Three Space Conceptions in Architecture, 1971), completes the argument made in The Beginnings of Architecture. His earlier and most famous work, Space, Time, and...
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