Book
The paintings of Moholy-Nagy: the shape of things to come
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
2015
Abstract
"Laszlo 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. 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 future that possibilities might take. 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. "--
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The paintings of Moholy-Nagy: the shape of things to come
- Creators
- Joyce Tsai - University of Iowa, Art and Art History
- Contributors
- Larry J Feinberg (Contributor)Eik Kahng (Contributor)James Merle Thomas (Contributor)Friederike Waentig (Contributor)
- Resource Type
- Book
- Publisher
- Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Santa Barbara
- ISBN
- 9780300209976; 0300209975
- Number of pages
- 160 pages
- Comment
- "This book accompanies the exhibition The Paintings of Moholy-Nagy: The Shape of Things to Come, presented at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California, from July 5 to September 27, 2015."
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2015
- Academic Unit
- Art and Art History
- Record Identifier
- 9983949693302771
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