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The paintings of Moholy-Nagy : the shape of things to come

Title
The paintings of Moholy-Nagy : the shape of things to come / Joyce Tsai ; with contributions by Larry J. Feinberg, Eik Kahng, James Merle Thomas, and Friederike Waentig.
Publication
  • Santa Barbara : Santa Barbara Museum of Art, [2015]
  • New Haven : Yale University Press

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Additional Authors
  • Moholy-Nagy, László, 1895-1946
  • Tsai, Joyce, 1977-
  • Feinberg, Larry J.
  • Kahng, Erik
  • Thomas, James Merle
  • Waentig, Friederike
  • Santa Barbara Museum of Art, hosting institution
Description
159 pages : illustrations (some colour); 31 cm
Summary
"Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) became notorious for the declarations he made about the end of painting, encouraging artists to exchange brush, pigment, and canvas for camera, film, and searchlight. Even as he made these radical claims, he painted throughout his career. The practice of painting enabled Moholy-Nagy to imagine generative relationships between art and technology, and to describe the shape future that possibilities might take. Joyce Tsai illuminates the evolution of painting's role for Moholy-Nagy through key periods in his career: at the German Bauhaus in the 1920s, in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom in the early 1930s, and as director of the New Bauhaus in Chicago in the last decade of his life. The book also includes an introduction to the history, qualities, and significance of plastic materials that Moholy-Nagy used over the course of his career, and an essay on how his project of shaping habitable space in his art and writing resonated with artists and industrial designers in the 1960s and 1970s. "--
Subjects
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • "This book accompanies the exhibition The Paintings of Moholy-Nagy: The Shape of Things to Come, presented at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California, from July 5 to September 27, 2015."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Call Number
JQG 15-337
ISBN
  • 9780300209976
  • 0300209975
LCCN
2014047923
OCLC
894310503
Title
The paintings of Moholy-Nagy : the shape of things to come / Joyce Tsai ; with contributions by Larry J. Feinberg, Eik Kahng, James Merle Thomas, and Friederike Waentig.
Publisher
Santa Barbara : Santa Barbara Museum of Art, [2015]
Distributor
New Haven : Yale University Press
Type of Content
still image
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Added Author
Moholy-Nagy, László, 1895-1946, artist.
Tsai, Joyce, 1977- Shape of things to come.
Feinberg, Larry J., contributor.
Kahng, Erik, contributor.
Thomas, James Merle, contributor.
Waentig, Friederike, contributor.
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, hosting institution.
Research Call Number
JQG 15-337
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