Although recognized today as a pioneer in constructivist art, kinetic sculpture, and graphic design, the Hungarian artist Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) made his most important contribution to 20th-century art in photography. This text is a comprehensive treatment of the photographs and theoretical writing of this pivotal figure in modernist photography. Eleanor Hight rejects the traditional approach to modernist photography in which Moholy is seen as merely applying formalist means to his subject matter. Instead, her study ...
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Although recognized today as a pioneer in constructivist art, kinetic sculpture, and graphic design, the Hungarian artist Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) made his most important contribution to 20th-century art in photography. This text is a comprehensive treatment of the photographs and theoretical writing of this pivotal figure in modernist photography. Eleanor Hight rejects the traditional approach to modernist photography in which Moholy is seen as merely applying formalist means to his subject matter. Instead, her study focuses on his intensive program to develop a visual language, which he called the New Vision, to explore and image the modern world.
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Very Good. 1994. Hardcover. Cloth, dj. Scuffing to jacket, sunning to spine extending to edges of panels, flaps. Boards slightly bowed. Else fine. A bright, clean copy with pristine images. Very Good. (Subject: Art).
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Near Fine Plus in Near Fine jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Hardcover in dust jacket., faint sun-line to upper dj, happily echoing the modernist design of the dj. no other flaws, clean, tightly bound, no writing or markings, well preserved copy.; xiipp., 256pp., 108 b/w illustrations.; moholy-nagy, photography, the bauhaus, weimar germany.
