This reminded me of Sigfried Giedion, whose work I have followed… — The Museum as Large-Room Pinball Machine, Marshall McLuhan, Harley Parker, and Museum Professionals, 1967, full transcript of a seminar at the City Museum of New York, October 9-10, 1967, edited by William Buxton, published by U. of Alberta Press, 2026, p 161

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This reminded me of Sigfried Giedion, whose work I have followed since 1939. He was in St. Louis then, giving the lectures that were published as Space, Time and Architecture. I became acquainted with him and have known him ever since. … Giedion’s whole approach to art and technology is environmental. He called the environment non-museum history, because people are always unaware of it. Now the study of environments as a new perception and new teleology is his theme; so the secret of Giedion is indispensable in the context of here and now. His whole approach to the study of changing styles in art and architecture is something I have taken for granted since ’39, when I first met him. It was all new to me then. … So perhaps I have taken too much for granted. This Giedion approach (like Hall’s educational approach, which we mentioned earlier, to the hidden dimensions of experience) is one which seems to me indicated for our time.

The Museum as Large-Room Pinball Machine, Marshall McLuhan, Harley Parker, and Museum Professionals, 1967, full transcript of a seminar at the City Museum of New York, October 9-10, 1967, edited by William Buxton, published by U. of Alberta Press, 2026, p 161

Quote #4840

Year: 1967

Chapters: Museum | Architecture | Environment | Giedion, Sigfried

↪ Also at #2430, #2118, #417