Die Entstehung des heutigen Menschen - Sigfried Giedion tea Started as a visual diary

Started as a visual diary

The Word is Art examines each of these questions

now in its seventh decade

ahead of her exhibition at the Bourse de Commerce

Die Entstehung des heutigen Menschen - Sigfried Giedion tea Started as a visual diarySwiss art historian and herald of modern architecture Sigfried Giedion (18881968) had a new history in mind when he began working on an ambitious book project in 1929. The book was to span from around 1750 to his time of writing in the 1930s. Multivolume and multidisciplinary, it was intended to serve as a document for diagnosing the time period and for orientation within an age perceived as chaotic. For various reasons, the project was interrupted in