VISION IN MOTION
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: VISION IN MOTION. Chicago: Theobald 1947. Fifth printing. A near-fine hardcover book in a very good Dust jacket: the DJ is tender on the edges and lightly chipped. Book design and typography by the author. Interior unmarked and very clean and out-of-print.

9 x11 hardcover book with 376 pages and 440 illustrations (many in color). An exhaustive visual compendium of the modern movement, circa 1947. Includes many examples of Bauhaus and the New Bauhaus (Institute of Design) work (Marcel Breuer, Walter Gropius, Oskar Schlemmer, Herbert Bayer, etc.)

One of Chicago's great cultural achievements, the Institute of Design 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, including Lázló Moholy-Nagy, Harry Callahan, and Aaron Siskind.

This is a Bible of Modernism from one of the Bauhaus masters who relocated to Chicago before World War II and continued to teach his avant-garde theories of art and design. Walter Gropius: "I think this will be the leading book in art education." What more can I add? Contents:

  • Foreward
  • Acknowledgement
  • Introduction
  • Analyzing the Situation/Vision in Motion
  • New Method of Approach - Design for Life
  • New Education - Organic Approach
  • Integration - the Arts: Painting, Photography, Sculpture, Space-Time problems, Motion Pictures, Literature, Group Poetry
  • A Proposal
  • Index

The list of designers, photographers, architects and artists represented inthis volume is a veritable rosetta stone of the 20th-century modern movement: Alvar Aalto, Berenice Abbot, Jean Arp, Willie Baumeister, Herbert Bayer, Max Bill, Marcel Breuer, Robert Brownjohn, Le Corbusier, Theo van Doesburg, Henry Dreyfuss, Naum Gabo, Morton Goldsholl, Juan Gris, Walter Gropius, Raoul Hausmann, Kasimir Malevich, Herbert Matter, Mies van der Rohe, Piet Mondrian, Richard Neutra, ben Nicholson, Paul Rand, Bernard Rodofsky, Ladislav Sutnar, Angelo Testa, James Prestini, Frank Lloyd Wright and many others.

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