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Sigfried Giedion (1888-1968) and Carola Giedion-Welcker (1893-1979)
were among the most distinguished and influential scholars of art
and architectural 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, Laszlo
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 through to 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 Institute 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 re-evaluation of Sigfried and Carola
Giedion-Welcker's work, impact, and lasting significance. The
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Featuring a vast number of previously unpublished documents and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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