TY  - BOOK
AU  - Giedion,Sigfried
TI  - The Eternal Present, Volume II: The Beginnings of Architecture 
T2  - The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts
SN  - 9780691251899
U1  - 722.2 
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Egypt
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Architecture, Ancient
KW  - ARCHITECTURE / History / Prehistoric & Primitive
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Anubis
KW  - Borchardt, Ludwig
KW  - Chephren
KW  - Constancy of laws
KW  - Egyptian and Mesopotamian, differences
KW  - Egyptian use of
KW  - Egyptian, and sculpture and relief
KW  - Egyptian: animal
KW  - Junker, Hermann
KW  - Mesopotamian terra-cotta, *5
KW  - Nebuchadnezzar
KW  - Pavilion de
KW  - Plato and
KW  - Plato
KW  - Schweitzer, Ursula
KW  - Sphinx
KW  - Tell Harmal, lions, *5
KW  - Thoth
KW  - and Egypt, basic differences
KW  - and Mesopotamia, basic differences
KW  - and wandering
KW  - ankh
KW  - art
KW  - beauty: female, recognition of, in Egypt, viii
KW  - contours, drawer of
KW  - dethronement of
KW  - female body, portrayal of, viii
KW  - form of, ix
KW  - in Egypt and Sumer
KW  - in early civilizations
KW  - in primeval art
KW  - prehistoric and Egyptian, compared
KW  - relation to sculpture
KW  - sunken reliefs and, in Egypt, ix
KW  - sunken: in Egypt, ix
KW  - use in Egypt, ix
N1  - Frontmatter --; FOREWORD --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; TABLE OF CONTENTS --; PART I THE DIFFERING DESTINIES OF EGYPT AND SUMER --; PART II THE EGGSHELLS OF PREHISTORY --; PART III CREATING AN ANTHROPOMORPHIC COSMOS --; PART IV CONSTANCY AND CHANGE IN THE MODE OF EXPRESSION --; PART V THE ORIGINS OF MONUMENTAL ARCHITECTURE: MESOPOTAMIA --; PART VI ZIGGURATS: STAIRWAYS OF THE GODS --; PART VII BEGINNINGS OF STONE ARCHITECTURE AND THE KA: EGYPT --; PART VIII PYRAMIDS: RITES AND SPACE --; PART IX THE GREAT TEMPLES AND THE ETERNAL WANDERING --; PART X HATSHEPSUT AND THE COSMIC INNER COURT --; PART XI SUPREMACY OF THE VERTICAL --; PART XII THE FIRST ARCHITECTURAL SPACE CONCEPTION --; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS --; LIST OF WORKS CITED --; GENERAL INDEX --; INDEX OF CONCEPTS; restricted access
N2  - An original account of ancient Egyptian and Sumerian architecture from the acclaimed architectural historianIn The Beginnings of Architecture, Sigfried Giedion examines the architecture of ancient Egypt and Sumer. These early builders expressed an attitude of immense force when they confronted their structures with open sky. Giedion argues that it was during these periods that the problem of constancy and change flared up with an intensity unknown in any other period of history, and resolved eventually into the first architectural space conception, the automatic, psychic recording of the visual environment
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