Moholy-Nagy

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MOHOLY-NAGY
Krisztina Passuth
László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) was one of the most versatile artists of the twentieth century; but unlike those polymaths whose activities are practiced at the expense of profundity, he made highly significant contributions to the visual arts in everything he did. He was the dominant theoretician of the Bauhaus during its most prosperous era; his Constructivist/ Suprematist paintings are among the finest achievements in European art of the twenties; he was a pioneer in kinetic sculpture; and his photographs, photograms and photoplastics led the way in exploring the full potential of photo reproduction. And even these were not the limit of his interests, for he also made films, designed scenery and costumes, and excelled in commercial graphics and exhibition design.
Krisztina Passuth's kaleidoscopic picture of the man... Tovább

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MOHOLY-NAGY
Krisztina Passuth
László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) was one of the most versatile artists of the twentieth century; but unlike those polymaths whose activities are practiced at the expense of profundity, he made highly significant contributions to the visual arts in everything he did. He was the dominant theoretician of the Bauhaus during its most prosperous era; his Constructivist/ Suprematist paintings are among the finest achievements in European art of the twenties; he was a pioneer in kinetic sculpture; and his photographs, photograms and photoplastics led the way in exploring the full potential of photo reproduction. And even these were not the limit of his interests, for he also made films, designed scenery and costumes, and excelled in commercial graphics and exhibition design.
Krisztina Passuth's kaleidoscopic picture of the man and his work examines in detail the various stages of his career, from Hungary and Kassák's Activist circle during the First World War to Germany and the Bauhaus, from England in the 1930s to America and the foundation of the New Bauhaus in Chicago.
The many facets of his career were linked not only by a process of inner development but also by his prolific work as educator and writer on the arts, zealously advocating in the widest possible circles the importance of an innovative and experimental approach. This role is recorded through a wide selection of Moholy-Nagy's writings, and the book also contains extracts from his own letters, diaries and reminiscences, critical commentaries on his work and a comprehensive bibliography. With over 250 illustrations drawn from all phases of his work, the result is an impressive retrospective of an artist who has had a profound influence on how we see - and what we see.
With 252 illustrations 44 in color Vissza