LASZLO MOHOLY-NAGY
A LIFE IN MOTION
Annely Juda Fine Art
Annely Juda Fine Art: LASZLO MOHOLY-NAGY: A LIFE IN MOTION. London: Annely Juda Fine Art, 2004. First edition. A very good softcover book with printed stiff wrappers: some shelf wear. Some faint marks on the title page and intro. Otherwise, interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print.
8.75 x 9.75 softcover book with 110 pages and 52 color and b/w illustrations and 28 color and b/w text illustrations. Be sure and read about Ms. Annely Juda, a doyenne of the British art with an amazing life story. Her gallery brought attention to the Russian avant garde, Bauhaus and de Stijl schools, at a time when they were little known. Based on this publication, her reputation for excellence extended to her gallery's publications. This well-designed overview of Moholy-Nagy's career includes essays by Hattula Moholy-Nagy and Krisztina Passuth and a biography.
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.