Author: Joseph Harris CatonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The Utopian Vision of Moholy-Nagy
Author: Joseph Harris CatonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The Utopian Vision of Moholy-Nagy
Author: Joseph Harris CatonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Author: Joyce TsaiPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520290674
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
"Laszlo Moholy-Nagy is the first monograph on Moholy to attend to the fraught but central role painting played in shaping his aesthetic project. His reputation has been that of an artist far more interested in exploring the possibilities offered by photography, film, and other new media than in working with what he once called the 'anachronistic' medium of painting. And yet, with the exception of the period between 1928 and 1930, Moholy painted throughout his career. Joyce Tsai argues that his investment in painting, especially after 1930, emerged not only out of pragmatic and aesthetic considerations, but also out of a growing recognition of the economic, political, and ethical compromises required by his large-scale, technologically mediated projects aimed at reforming human vision. Without abandoning his commitment to fostering what he called New Vision, Moholy came to understand painting as a particularly plastic field in which the progressive possibilities of photography, film and other emergent media could find provisional expression."--Provided by publisher.
The Utopian Vision of Moholy-Nagy
Author: Joseph Harris CatonUtopian Visions
Author: Michelle Anne BaileyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Author: Louis KaplanPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822315926
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
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.
The City of Collective Memory
Author: M. Christine BoyerPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262522113
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Describes the visual and mental models by which urban environment has been recognized, depicted and planned. This analysis draws from geography, critical theory, architecture, literature and painting to identify these maps of the city - as a work of art, as panorama and as spectacle.
Moholy-Nagy
Author: Matthew S. WitkovskyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780300214796
Category : ART
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
"Moholy-Nagy: Future Present is published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art."
Dada and Surrealist Film
Author: Rudolf E. KuenzliPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262611213
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This groundbreaking collection of thirteen original essays analyzes connections between film and two highly influential twentieth-century movements.
A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes
Author: Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136806199
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes recognizes that change is a driving force in all the arts. It covers major trends in music, dance, theater, film, visual art, sculpture, and performance art--as well as architecture, science, and culture.