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Moholy-Nagy : the photograms : catalogue raisonné
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ISBN: 9783775723411 3775723412 Year: 2009 Publisher: Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
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ISBN: 0714840181 Year: 2001 Publisher: London Phaidon


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Art as organism
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ISBN: 1350985414 0857728075 9780857728074 9780857728944 0857728946 9781784534301 1784534307 Year: 2016 Publisher: London

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What if modernism had been characterised by evolving, interconnected and multi-sensory images rather than by the monolithic objects often described by its artists and theorists? In this groundbreaking book, Charissa Terranova unearths a forgotten narrative of modernism, which charts the influence that biology, General Systems Theory and cybernetics had on art in the twentieth century. From kinetic and interactive art to early computer art and installations spanning an entire city, she shows that the digital image was a rich and expansive artistic medium of modernism. This book links the emergence of the digital image to the dispersion of biocentric aesthetic philosophies developed by Bauhaus pedagogue Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, from 1920s Berlin to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1970s. It uncovers seminal but overlooked references to biology, the organism, feedback loops, emotions and the Gestalt, along with an intricate genealogy of related thinkers across disciplines. Terranova reinterprets major art movements such as the Bauhaus, Op Art and Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), by referencing contemporary insights from architects, embryologists, electrical engineers and computer scientists, among others. This book reveals the complex connections between visual culture, science and technology that comprise the deep history of twentieth-century art.


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Free-Market Socialists : European Émigrés Who Made Capitalist Culture in America, 1918-1968.
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ISBN: 963386447X 9633864488 Year: 2022 Publisher: Central European University Press

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"The Hungarian artist-designer László Moholy-Nagy, the Austrian sociologist Paul Lazarsfeld, and his fellow Viennese Victor Gruen-an architect and urban planner-made careers in different fields. Yet they shared common socialist politics, Jewish backgrounds, and experience as refugees from the Nazis. This book tells the story of their intellectual migration from Central Europe to the United States, beginning with the collapse of the Habsburg Empire, and moving through the heady years of newly independent social-democratic republics before the descent into fascism. It follows their experience of exile and adaptation in a new country, and culminates with a surprising outcome of socialist thinking: the opening of the first fully enclosed, air-conditioned suburban shopping center in the United States. Although the American culture they encountered ostensibly celebrated entrepreneurial individualism and capitalistic "free enterprise," Moholy-Nagy, Lazarsfeld, and Gruen arrived at a time of the progressive economic reforms of the New Deal and an extraordinary open-mindedness about social democracy. This period of unprecedented economic experimentation nurtured a business climate that, for the most part, did not stifle the emigres' socialist idealism but rather channeled it as the source of creative solutions to the practical problems of industrial design, urban planning, and consumer behavior. Based on a vast array of original sources, Malherek interweaves the biographies of these three remarkable personalities and those of their wives, colleagues, and friends with whom they collaborated on innovative projects that would shape the material environment and consumer culture of their adopted home. The result is a narrative of immigration and adaptation that challenges the crude binary of capitalism and socialism with a story of creative economic hybridization"--

László Moholy-Nagy : photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum.
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ISBN: 089236324X 9780892363247 0892365684 9780892365685 Year: 1995 Publisher: Malibu, Calif. The J. Paul Getty Museum

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Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) was a painter, sculptor, filmmaker, writer, graphic and stage designer, teacher, and photographer. Working in his native Hungary as well as in Germany, Holland, England, and the United States, Moholy-Nagy constantly experimented in these various fields, leaving a remarkable legacy of innovation. The J. Paul Getty Museum owns eighty-two photographs by Moholy-Nagy, almost fifty of which are presented in this volume, the second in the Museum's In Focus series on photographers. The plates are accompanied by commentaries by Katherine Ware, Assistant Curator in the Department of Photographs. Ms. Ware, along with Thomas Barrow, Jeannine Fiedler, Charles Hagen, Hattula Moholy-Nagy, Weston Naef, and Leland Rice, participated in a colloquium on the life and work of Moholy-Nagy at the Museum in 1994. An edited transcript of this discussion and a chronology of significant events in the artist's life are also included in this book.

László Moholy-Nagy : color in transparency : photographic experiments in color = Fotografische Experimente in Farbe 1934 - 1946.
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ISBN: 386521293X 9783865212931 Year: 2006 Publisher: Göttingen Steidl

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Among the early twentieth-century's avant-garde, Hungarian-born photographer László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) was one of the most ardent seekers of the "New Vision." His preoccupation with the phenomenon of light was a defining influence on every period of his work, and one of his great strengths lay in his effortless skill in translating light and spatial dimensions from one medium to another. By the time the first color photographic processes became widely available in the early 1930s, he had mastered black-and-white, and he turned immediately to this next big thing. Color proved to be one of his most important mediums, not only during his early years in Germany, but also as he reestablished himself at the New Bauhaus and the Institute of Design, both of which he initiated upon moving to the United States and settling in Chicago. Until now, with only a few exceptions, his work in color has been unknown. Color in Transparency presents 100 pieces including advertisements, portraits, urban views, New Bauhaus studies and abstract compositions--created between Moholy-Nagy's first experiments with the medium in 1934 and his death in 1946. (Deuxième de couverture)

The struggle for utopia : Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy, 1917-1946
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ISBN: 0226505162 9780226505169 Year: 1998 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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Following 1917, a new artistic-social avant-garde emerged aiming to engage the artist in the building of social life. Through close readings of the works of Alexander Rodchenko, El Lissitzky and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, this book examines the way in which these three artists negotiated the changing relations between their social ideals and political realities they confronted.

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Victor Margolin --- design --- grafische vormgeving --- grafisch design --- grafisch ontwerp --- productdesign --- grafische- en reclamevormgeving --- Moholy-Nagy Laszlo --- Lissitzky El --- Rodchenko Alexander --- utopie --- kunst en politiek --- politiek --- communisme --- Sovjet-Unie --- constructivisme --- 7.037 --- a766.03 --- 745.036 --- Art and society --- Avant-garde (Aesthetics) --- Modernism (Art) --- Art, Modernist --- Modern art --- Modernism in art --- Modernist art --- Aesthetic movement (Art) --- Art, Modern --- Aesthetics --- History --- Lissitzky, El, --- Rodchenko, Aleksandr Mikhaĭlovich, --- Moholy-Nagy, László, --- Moholy-Nagy, Ladislaus, --- Nagy, László Moholy-, --- Nagy, Ladislaus Moholy-, --- Rodčenko, Alexandr, --- Rodtschenko, Alexander Michailowitsch, --- Rodchenko, Alexandre Mihailovitch, --- Rodčenko, Aleksandr, --- Rodchenko, Alexander, --- Rodtchenko, Alexsandre, --- Rodtchenko, Alexandre, --- Rodchenko, A. M. --- Rodtšenko, Aleksandr, --- Rodtjenko, Aleksandr, --- Родченко, Александр Михайлович, --- Lisitsḳi, Eliʻezer, --- Lissitzky, Lasar Markowitsch, --- Lisit︠s︡kiĭ, Ėlʹ, --- Lisit︠s︡kiĭ, Lazarʹ Markovich, --- Lissitzky, Lazar, --- Lissitzky, Eliezer, --- Lisitsḳi, E., --- Lisickij, Lazarʼ Markovič, --- Lisitsḳi, El, --- El Lissitzky, --- El Lisit︠s︡kiĭ, --- Лисицкий, Эль, --- ליסיצקי, אל --- ליסיצקי, אליעזר --- ליסיצקי, אליעזר, --- ליסיצקי, א. --- ליסיצקי, ל. --- Philosophy. --- Art --- Avant-garde (esthétique) --- Modernisme (art) --- Utopies --- Rodčenko, Aleksandr Mihailovič (1891-1956) --- Lisickij, Èlʹ (1890-1941) --- Moholy-Nagy, László (1895-1946) --- Aspect social --- Histoire --- 20e siècle --- Dans la littérature --- Philosophie


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Moholy-Nagy and the New Typogaphy: A-Z
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ISBN: 9783862067541 3862067548 Year: 2019 Publisher: Germany Kettler Verlag

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In 1929, ten years after the Bauhaus was founded, Berlin's Martin-Gropius-Bau launched the exhibition 'New Typography.' László Moholy-Nagy, who had left Dessau the previous year and had earned a reputation as a designer in Berlin, was invited to exhibit his work together with other artists. He designed a room'entitled 'Wohin geht die typografische Entwicklung'' ('Where is typography headed'')'where he presented 78 wall charts illustrating the development of the 'New Typography' since the turn of the century and extrapolating its possible future. To create these charts, he not only used his own designs, but also included advertising prints by colleagues associated with the Bauhaus.0The functional graphic design, initiated by the 'New Typography' movement in the 1920s, broke with tradition and established a new advertising design based on artistic criteria. It aimed to achieve a modern look with standardized typefaces, industrial DIN norms, and adherence to such ideals as legibility, lucidity, and straightforwardness, in line with the key principles of constructivist art. For the first time, this comprehensive publication showcases Moholy-Nagy's wall charts which have recently been rediscovered in Berlin's Kunstbibliothek. Renowned authors provide insights into this treasure trove by each contributing to this alphabetized compilation starting with 'A' for 'Asymmetry' and ending with 'Z' for 'Zukunftsvision' ('vision of the future'). By perusing through the pages and allowing a free flow of association, the typographical world of ideas of the 1920s avant-garde is once again brought back to life.

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Moholy-Nagy, Laszlo --- Graphic design (Typography) --- Type and type-founding --- kunst --- grafisch design --- grafische vormgeving --- grafisch ontwerp --- typografie --- twintigste eeuw --- Bauhaus --- Moholy-Nagy Laszlo --- tentoonstellingen --- kunstgeschiedenis --- kunsttheorie --- 7.071 MOHOLY-NAGY --- Typographic design --- Design --- Printing --- Layout (Printing) --- History --- Moholy-Nagy, László, --- Moholy-Nagy, Ladislaus, --- Nagy, László Moholy-, --- Nagy, Ladislaus Moholy-, --- Staatliches Bauhaus --- Baohaosi --- Bauhaus Dessau --- Exhibitions --- Typografie --- Lettertypes --- Boekvormgeving --- 655.262 <43> --- 655.262 MOHOLY-NAGY, LASZLO --- 745.036 "193" --- 745.036 "193" Bauhaus. Stijlbeweging --- Bauhaus. Stijlbeweging --- 655.262 MOHOLY-NAGY, LASZLO Boekdesign--MOHOLY-NAGY, LASZLO --- 655.262 MOHOLY-NAGY, LASZLO Typographic design of the text. Aesthetic questions, text division and layout, arrangement of illustrations etc.--MOHOLY-NAGY, LASZLO --- Boekdesign--MOHOLY-NAGY, LASZLO --- Typographic design of the text. Aesthetic questions, text division and layout, arrangement of illustrations etc.--MOHOLY-NAGY, LASZLO --- Boekdesign--algemeen--Duitsland voor 1945 en na 1989 --- 655.262 <43> Boekdesign--algemeen--Duitsland voor 1945 en na 1989 --- 655.262 <43> Typographic design of the text. Aesthetic questions, text division and layout, arrangement of illustrations etc.--Duitsland voor 1945 en na 1989 --- Typographic design of the text. Aesthetic questions, text division and layout, arrangement of illustrations etc.--Duitsland voor 1945 en na 1989 --- Lettertype --- Moholy-Nagy, László

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