MOHOLY-NAGY
Krisztina Passuth

Krisztina Passuth: MOHOLY-NAGY. NYC: Thames and Hudson, 1985. First edition. A fine oversized hardcover book in a fine dust jacket with a trace of rubbing and one tiny chip to the rear panel. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print.

8.5 x 11 hardcover book with 448 pages and 252 illustrations including 44 in color (illustrations of art, architecture, sculpture, displays, movie sets, furniture, etc.). Translated by Eva Grusz & Judy Szollosy & Laszlo Baranszky Job (translation revised by Kenneth McRobbie & Ilona Janosi). Passuth evaluates Maholy-Nagy's, the Hungarian polymath's role at the Bauhaus and at the Institute of Design, Chicago. She includes extracts from his letters, diaries, reminiscences and a comprehensive bibliography. Comprehensive. Highly recommended.

Important monograph on the varied career of moholy-nagy, modernist giant., modernist painter, bauhaus professor, photographer, film-maker, designer, sculptor, repeated exile, more., book includes much of moholy's own writings, letters and assorted writings and criticism by others on him. Includes excerpts from all of Moholy's treatsies on modern design -- intended to inform laymen and artists about the basic elements of Bauhaus education and the merging of theory and design.

Includes material from Institute of Design --one of Chicago's great cultural achievements. The ID was among the most important schools of photography in twentieth-century America. It began as an outpost of experimental Bauhaus education and was home to an astonishing group of influential teachers and students.

Also included are many beautifully-reproduced photographs and photograms. For Moholy-Nagy, photography was of inestimable value in educating the eye to what he called "the new vision." He believed that the camera, through its ability to manipulate light and its capacity of the eye, could help us alter our traditional perceptual habits.

'As a painter, typographer, photographer, stage designer, and architect, Moholy was one of the most creative intelligences of our time.' -- Herbert Read.

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