The Paintings of Moholy-Nagy: The Shape of Things to Come
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| Rating | : | 4.63 (564 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0300209975 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the AuthorJoyce Tsai is assistant professor of modern and contemporary art at the University of Florida, Gainesville.
Joyce Tsai is assistant professor of modern and contemporary art at the University of Florida, Gainesville.
Four Stars Good book---would like a few more pictures, however, overall, I would recommend it.
Joyce Tsai illuminates the evolution of painting’s role for Moholy-Nagy through key periods in his career: at the German Bauhaus in the 1920s, in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom in the early 1930s, and as director of the New Bauhaus in Chicago in the last decade of his life. The book also includes an introduction to the history, qualities, and significance of plastic materials that Moholy-Nagy used over the course of his career, and an essay on how his project of shaping habitable space in his art and writing resonated with artists and industrial designers in the 1960s and 1970s. . Even as he made these radical claims, he painted throughout his career. The practice of painting enabled Moholy-Nagy to imagine generative relationships between art and technology, and to describe the shape that future possibilities might take. László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946) became notorious for the declarations he made about the end of painting, encouraging artists to exchange brush, pigment, and canvas for camera, film, and searchlight