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Naturalistic art, as we know it, is an art which imitates the appearance of things, not as they are in reality, but as they appear at one moment from the point of view of a single spectator. This is the effect of perspective. Nothing of this sort existed in prehistory.

Sigfried Giedion

Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted...

Sigfried Giedion

Sigfried Giedion

Sigfried Giedion

Born: April 14, 1888

Died: April 9, 1968 (aged 79)

Bio: Sigfried Giedion was a Bohemian-born Swiss historian and critic of architecture.

Known for:

Space, Time and Architecture (1941)
Mechanization Takes Command (1948)
Architecture, you and me (1958)
Walter Gropius, work and teamwork (1954)

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