The paintings of Moholy-Nagy
Subtitle: the shape of things to come
By: Joyce Tsai ; with contributions by Larry J. Feinberg ... [and three others]
Contributors: Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Publisher: Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780300209976
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Hungarian Painting; Modern Art; Exhibitions
Description: "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. "--
Notes: "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."

Includes bibliographical references.