Skip to main content

ETHNOS_APP

Home • Search • Journals • List 0

Science Moderne

Sigfried Giedion's Space, Time and Architecture and Mechanization Takes Command

Bibliographic Data

ID4019833
AuthorsArthur P Molella (corresponding author)
Year2002
Volume43
Issue2
Pages374-389
Publication date2002-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueTechnology and Culture (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0040-165X • E-ISSN: 1097-3729
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/tech.2002.0077
OpenAlexW1963997913
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited7

Sigfried Giedion (1888-1968) was a Swiss art historian who pioneered the history of technology while helping bring forth modernity, born of the convergence of revolutionary transformations in science, technology, and the arts, and identified with such names as Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Sigmund Freud, Henry Ford, and the Wrights (both Frank Lloyd and the brothers Wilbur and Orville). Together, Space, Time and Architecture and Mechanization Takes Command, originally published in English in 1941 and 1948 respectively, shed light on this convergence—showing, for example, how such abstruse concepts as the special theory of relativity drifted from physics and entered the popular idiom in painting, architecture, and literature. Giedion believed passionately in bridging disciplinary and cultural boundaries. It was through his artist friends that Giedion discovered a new world of science. He then coupled art and science to create a fresh vision of technology, his best hope for restoring the "equilibrium" he desired between man and machine

Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Constructivism (international relations) · Convergence (economics) · Epistemology · Modernity · Painting · PICASSO · Political science · Politics · Sociology · The arts · Visual arts · Architecture · Art, Technology, and Culture · History and Developments in Astronomy · Law · Philosophy · Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life

  • Exorcising Ghosts in the Age of Automation

    Jacob Darwin Hamblin•Technology and Culture•2006

  • The Longue Duree of Abbott Payson Usher

    Arthur P Molella•Technology and Culture•2005

  • Preservation, Polemics, and Power

    Sharon Irish•Technology and Culture•2008

  • Mechanization Takes Command

    Sigfried Giedion•Mechanization Takes Command•1969

  • Weimar Culture, Causality, and Quantum Theory, 1918-1927

    Paul Forman•Historical Studies in the…•1971

  • The Frankfurt School

    Zoltan Tarr, W Adorno Theodor et al.•Frankfurt School•2017

  • Reactionary modernism

    Jeffrey Herf•Reactionary modernism•1984

  • The condition of postmodernity

    David Harvey•The condition of postmodernity•1989

  • In Context

    Lesley Marx, Leo Marx et al.•Technology and Culture•1991

  • Modern Art and Scientific Thought

    Louis Vaczek, John Adkins Richardson et al.•Technology and Culture•1972

Unique citing works3
Citations per year0,14
Citation span2005 - 2008 (4)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo

Tools

Open DOISci-Hub
Ethnos_APP • Open Source Project • MIT License • Frontend v2.0.0 • Privacy and Cookies • API Documentation: api.ethnos.app/docs • API Source Code: GitHub • DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17049435 • Frontend Source Code: GitHub • DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17050053 • cruz.rio.br • Expectantes Misericordiae