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81587 — Zürich Scheidegger & Spiess 2019. 4° on 420 pages with 198 color illustrations featuring 630 documents objects and photographs Kart. Tadell. With contributions by Roger Fayet Almut Grunewald Mario Lüscher Bruno Maurer Arthur Rüegg and Bettina Zimmermann and a preface by Monica Giedion.Sigfried Giedion 1888–1968 and Carola Giedion-Welcker 1893–1979 were among the most distinguished and influential scholars of art and architecrual history during the 20th century’s earlier dacades. Of particular impact was their role in connecting leading protagonists of modernism in architecture art and literature such as Alvar Aalto Hans Arp Constantin Brancusi Marcel Breuer Max Ernst Walter Gropius Barbara Hepworth Le Corbusier László Moholy-Nagy Piet Mondrian or Sophie Taeuber-Arp. The discourses they initiated for example on the New Vision in photography or a “Synthesis of Arts“ have lost nothing of their relevance and provide new starting points until the present day.The estate of Sigfried and Carola Giedion-Welcker is today kept in Zurich at ETH Zurich’s Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture the Swiss Isntitute for Art Research the University of Zurich’s Institute of Romance Studies and the James Joyce Foundation. It comprises some 16000 letters 10000 photographic prints and negatives a wealth of other papers and a vast library.This new book offers a revaluation of Sigfried and Carola Giedion-Welcker work impact and lasting significance. Editor and contributors were the first to draw fully on the estate which has been opened entirely to researchers only recently. Featuring a vast number of previously unpublished documents and other images alongside excerpts from the extensive correspondence the two maintained with their artist friends and colleagues in academia it provides a unique and manifold insight into the “Giedion universe.†010 Zürich, Scheidegger & Spiess, 2019 unknown