Author: Sigfried Giedion
In “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, materialistic approach, he explores Palaeolithic art by bringing abstraction, transparency, and simultaneity into play as modern art has revealed them anew.
Focusing on the dual concepts of constancy and change, he examines Palaeolithic paintings, engravings, and sculpture, as well as modern art and recent examples of “primitive art.”
