Author: Sibyl Moholy-Nagy
Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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Author: Sibyl Moholy-Nagy
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Louis Kaplan
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822315926
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Marking the centenary of the birth of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946), this book offers a new approach to the Bauhaus artist and theorist’s multifaceted life and work—an approach that redefines the very idea of biographical writing. In Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Louis Kaplan applies the Derridean deconstructivist model of the "signature effect" to an intellectual biography of a Constructivist artist. Inhabiting the borderline between life and work, the book demonstrates how the signature inscribed by "Moholy" operates in a double space, interweaving signified object and signifying matter, autobiography and auto-graphy. Through interpretative readings of over twenty key artistic and photographic works, Kaplan graphically illustrates Moholy’s signature effect in action. He shows how this effect plays itself out in the complex of relations between artistic originality and plagiarism, between authorial identity and anonymity, as well as in the problematic status of the work of art in the age of technical reproduction. In this way, the book reveals how Moholy’s artistic practice anticipates many of the issues of postmodernist debate and thus has particular relevance today. Consequently, Kaplan clarifies the relationship between avant-garde Constructivism and contemporary deconstruction. This new and innovative configuration of biography catalyzed by the life writing of Moholy-Nagy will be of critical interest to artists and writers, literary theorists, and art historians.

Author: Barry Bergdoll
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
ISBN: 9780870707582
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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The Bauhaus, the school of art and design founded in Germany in 1919 and shut down by the Nazis in 1933, brought together artists, architects and designers in an extraordinary conversation about modern art. Bauhaus 1919-1933, published to accompany a major multimedia exhibition at MoMA, is the first comprehensive treatment of the subject by MoMA since 1938 and offers a new generational perspective on the 20th century's most influential experiment in artistic education. It brings together works in a broad range of mediums, including industrial design, furniture, architecture, graphics, photography, textiles, ceramics, theatre and costume design, and painting and sculpture - many of which have rarely if ever been seen outside of Germany. Featuring about 400 colour plates and a rich range of documentary images, this publication includes two overarching images by the exhibition's curators, Leah Dickerman and Barry Bergdoll, concise interpretive essays on key objects by over twenty leading scholars, and an illustrated, narrative chronology.

Author: Steven A. Mansbach
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aesthetics, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Author: Peter Weibel
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9783211245620
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 620

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A new theory of culture presented with a new method achieved by comparing closely the art and science in 20th century Austria and Hungary. Major achievements that have influenced the world like psychoanalysis, abstract art, quantum physics, Gestalt psychology, formal languages, vision theories, and the game theory etc. originated from these countries, and influence the world still today as a result of exile nurtured in the US. A source book with numerous photographs, images and diagrams, it opens up a nearly infinite horizon of knowledge that helps one to understand what is going on in today’s worlds of art and science.

Author: Sibyl Moholy-Nagy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 259

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Author: László Moholy-Nagy
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Johannes Rinkenburger
Publisher: Niggli Verlag
ISBN: 9783721209921
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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An analytical and practical adaptation of the Bauhaus books showing amazing possibilities for graphic designers today.

Author: Robin Schuldenfrei
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691232660
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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"An innovative new history of how the migration of designers in the 20th century shaped modernist art and architecture"--