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- The Limits of InfinitySigfried Giedion and the Evolution of the Reception of Guarino Guarini
The Limits of Infinity
Sigfried Giedion and the Evolution of the Reception of Guarino Guarini
- Abstract
- This article describes the influential role of Sigfried Giedion in the historiography of the Italian architect Guarino Guarini. According to Giedion, Guarini was the most important representative of the Late Baroque, embodying the fusion of architecture and science. In Giedion’s argumentation Guarini represents a man of science rather than an artist. This is part of his strategy to defend Guarini as a valid historical precursor of Modernism, by means of introducing a modern concept of space. Van Beek argues that Wittkower adopted Giedion’s argumentation and therefore largely contributed to the continuation of this interpretation, a legitimation of this defence that now turns out to be endlessly limited.
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- Citation
- van Beek, M. (2011). The Limits of Infinity. Sigfried Giedion and the Evolution of the Reception of Guarino Guarini. Baroque, OASE, (86), 34–40. Retrieved from https://www.oasejournal.nl/en/Issues/86/TheLimitsOfInfinity
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- Maarten Delbeke
- December 2011
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