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“Giedion has made a rich and original contribution…No one has done this particular job before, and no one should have to do it again in our generation. Giedion...has himself created a monument.” –Lewis Mumford, The New Yorker
“A sturdy volume of more than seven hundred pages, equipped with some five hundred drawings, photographs, and reproductions by way of illustration. It is a provocative, enlightening, sometimes frightening story.” –The New York Times
“Many people have wondered what mechanization is doing to man; nobody has yet investigated, documented, and illustrated the question to the extent of this enormous and fascinating book…Like the accompanying text, the 501 photographs embrace everything under the sun—including whole centuries of kitchen sinks.” –TIME Magazine
“One of the best works on American technology remains that of a Swiss, Siegfried Giedion (Mechanization Takes Command).” –The New York Times
“An example of how an original historical account can brightly elucidate the contemporary scene—Siegfried Giedion proves above all that an original mind can be greatly benefited by the disciplined approach of research and by the continued contact throughout a lifetime with leading contemporaries.” –Richard J. Neutra, Arts and Architecture
“It adds a whole new dimension to historiography. It strips off the familiar skin of history and shows the actual process at work underneath. He confines himself to a cool, tenacious investigation of the mechanization of certain definite areas of human activity.” –The Architectural Forum --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
“A sturdy volume of more than seven hundred pages, equipped with some five hundred drawings, photographs, and reproductions by way of illustration. It is a provocative, enlightening, sometimes frightening story.” –The New York Times
“Many people have wondered what mechanization is doing to man; nobody has yet investigated, documented, and illustrated the question to the extent of this enormous and fascinating book…Like the accompanying text, the 501 photographs embrace everything under the sun—including whole centuries of kitchen sinks.” –TIME Magazine
“One of the best works on American technology remains that of a Swiss, Siegfried Giedion (Mechanization Takes Command).” –The New York Times
“An example of how an original historical account can brightly elucidate the contemporary scene—Siegfried Giedion proves above all that an original mind can be greatly benefited by the disciplined approach of research and by the continued contact throughout a lifetime with leading contemporaries.” –Richard J. Neutra, Arts and Architecture
“It adds a whole new dimension to historiography. It strips off the familiar skin of history and shows the actual process at work underneath. He confines himself to a cool, tenacious investigation of the mechanization of certain definite areas of human activity.” –The Architectural Forum --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Over the last two hundred years mechanization has moved from being a marginal marvel, of interest to scientists and tinkerers, to the dominant condition of modern society and economy, so much so that it is now easy to imagine a future where mechanization even enters into the human mind and body. Sigfried Giedion’s extraordinary, encyclopedic book traces the various ways in which, for better and for worse, mechanization has assumed control of our lives, from modern systems of hygiene and waste management, to agricultural production, fashion, and beyond.
Giedion’s book is not only clearly written but also eloquent and thoughtful in its investigation of mechanization’s reach and appeal, and it offers fascinating insights into the intersection between mechanization and the imagination, as manifested in literature and the visual arts. With a wealth of unusual and intriguing illustrations taken from old sales catalogues, industrial manuals, magazines, and other sources, Giedion’s book constitutes a remarkable and endlessly suggestive history of modernity itself, as comprehensive as it is provocative and eccentric. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Giedion’s book is not only clearly written but also eloquent and thoughtful in its investigation of mechanization’s reach and appeal, and it offers fascinating insights into the intersection between mechanization and the imagination, as manifested in literature and the visual arts. With a wealth of unusual and intriguing illustrations taken from old sales catalogues, industrial manuals, magazines, and other sources, Giedion’s book constitutes a remarkable and endlessly suggestive history of modernity itself, as comprehensive as it is provocative and eccentric. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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