THE NEW VISION and ABSTRACT OF AN ARTIST
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: THE NEW VISION and ABSTRACT OF AN ARTIST. NYC: Wittenborn, 1947 (The Documents of Modern Art Number 3 (series edited by Robert Motherwell). 1955 edition. A near fine softcover book in decorated, stiff wrappers: uncoated wrappers have one small scraped area and show a trace of wear along the spine junctures. A superior copy of this fragile, early volume. Cover design and typography by Paul Rand. 7.5 x 10 book, with 96 pages and 90 b/w photos highlighting the theoretical teachings of the Bauhaus master by way of Chicago. Photos and diagrams of art, architecture, sculpture, displays, movie sets, furniture, etc. In an early issue of GRAPHIS, Max Bill reviewed Motherwell's Documents of Modern Art series by stating it was the most important series of modern art documents since Gropius and Moholy-Nagy published the Bauhuasbuchers.
An amazing book that expands upon Moholy-Nagy¹s 1928 treatsie The New Vision (originally published as Bauhausbuch 14). Moholy's treatsie on modern design was intended to inform laymen and artists about the basic elements of Bauhaus education and the merging of theory and design.
Covers and interior design/typography by Paul Rand. An excellent meeting of two of the giants of 20th Century modernism: remember: Form follows function!
Contents :
- Preface by Walter Gropius
- Bibliography
- The New Vision
- Abstract of an Artist
- Index
Includes work by Alexander Archipenko, Hans Arp, Giacomo Balla, Constantin Brancusi, Le Corbusier, Naum Gabo, Walter Gropius, Nathan Lerner, Pablo Picasso and many others.
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (Hungarian, 1895-1946) was born in Bacsbarsod, Hungary. Injured during World War I, he turned to painting and made contact with the Budapest avant-garde in 1918. In 1922, Maholy-Nagy participated in the International Dada-Constructivist Congress in Weimar and began experiments in photography with his wife Lucia. Appointed master at the Bauhaus in 1923, he made his first film, Berliner Stilleden, in 1926. Although always a painter and designer, Moholy-Nagy became a key figure in photography in Germany in the 1920's. In 1928 Moholy-Nagy left the Bauhaus and traveled to Amsterdam and London. His teachings and publications of photographic experimentations were crucial to the international development of the New Vision. In 1937 he was invited to found the New Bauhaus in Chicago by the Association of Arts and Industries. Moholy-Nagy served as teacher and director there from 1937 until his death in 1946.
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