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Giedion has extrapolated the new art approaches to space
“since Cézanne” to include “popular culture” and “anonymous
history.” Art is for him as inclusive an idea as “mimesis” is for
Aristotle. He is currently completing a massive work on The
Beginnings of Art as a companion to his artistic analysis of all
the abstract modes of twentieth-century mechanization. It is
necessary to understand the close interrelation between the
world and art of the cave man, and the intensely organic
interdependence of men in the electric age. Of course, it could
be argued that a lyric disposition to applaud the audile-tactile
gropings of child and cave art betokens a naive and uncritical
obsession with the unconscious modes of an electric or
simultaneous culture. But it was a great thrill for many late
Romantics to break through suddenly into an “understanding”
of primitive art. As Emile Durkheim had insisted, men could not
take much more of the fragmentation of work and experience