The Eternal Present: A Contribution on Constancy and Change II. The Beginnings of Architecture

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 1957. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Bollingen Foundation. Distributed by Pantheon Books (Random House, Inc.); spez. parts I: The differing destinies of Egypt and Sumer; II. The eggshells of prehistory; III. Creating an anthropomorphic cosm...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Giedion, S.
Format: Print Book
In:Bollingen Series
Year: 1964
Published: New York 1964
KeiBi Identifier:26:111
All Reviews:ArBu 47 (1965) 536-537 (D. Fraser)
Archaeology 18 (1965) 309-310 (Ch. H. Morgan)
ChrÉ XL/80 (1965, ersch. 1966) 344-348 (CI. Vandersleyen)
IPEK 21 (1964/1965) 126-128 (H. Kühn)
Or 35 (1966) 65-69 (R. North)
RAr 1/1965, 113-114 (Ch. P[icard])
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Summary:The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 1957. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Bollingen Foundation. Distributed by Pantheon Books (Random House, Inc.); spez. parts I: The differing destinies of Egypt and Sumer; II. The eggshells of prehistory; III. Creating an anthropomorphic cosmos; IV. Constancy and change in the mode of expression; V. The origins of monumental architecture: Mesopotamia; VI. Ziggurats: Stairways of the gods.