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László Moholy-Nagy : painting after photography
- Title
- László Moholy-Nagy : painting after photography / Joyce Tsai.
- Author
- Tsai, Joyce, 1977-
- Publication
- Oakland, California : University of California Press ; [Washington, DC] : The Phillips Collection, [2018]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JQF 19-606 | Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300 |
Details
- Description
- x, 210 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 26 cm.
- Summary
- "Laszlo Moholy-Nagy is the first monograph on Moholy to attend to the fraught but central role painting played in shaping his aesthetic project. His reputation has been that of an artist far more interested in exploring the possibilities offered by photography, film, and other new media than in working with what he once called the 'anachronistic' medium of painting. And yet, with the exception of the period between 1928 and 1930, Moholy painted throughout his career. Joyce Tsai argues that his investment in painting, especially after 1930, emerged not only out of pragmatic and aesthetic considerations, but also out of a growing recognition of the economic, political, and ethical compromises required by his large-scale, technologically mediated projects aimed at reforming human vision. Without abandoning his commitment to fostering what he called New Vision, Moholy came to understand painting as a particularly plastic field in which the progressive possibilities of photography, film and other emergent media could find provisional expression."--Provided by publisher.
- Series Statement
- The Phillips Collection book prize series ; 6
- Uniform Title
- Phillips book prize series ; 6.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- New vision -- Painting productivity -- Sorcerer's apprentice -- Painting after photography -- Conclusion: homecoming.
- Call Number
- JQF 19-606
- ISBN
- 9780520290679
- 0520290674
- LCCN
- 2017036817
- 99976508322
- OCLC
- 1003132193
- Author
- Tsai, Joyce, 1977- author.
- Title
- László Moholy-Nagy : painting after photography / Joyce Tsai.
- Publisher
- Oakland, California : University of California Press ; [Washington, DC] : The Phillips Collection, [2018]
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- The Phillips Collection book prize series ; 6Phillips book prize series ; 6.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Note
- AUTH: UNIVERSITY OF IOWA. EXAMINES PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTIONS EXPLORED BY MOHOLY-NAGY DURING CAREER.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 99976508322
- Research Call Number
- JQF 19-606