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

"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...

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Corporate Authors: Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
Group Author: Tsai, Joyce, 1977-; Feinberg, Larry J. (Contributor); Kahng, Eik (Contributor); Thomas, James M. (James Merle) (1963-); Waentig, Friederike (Contributor)
Published: Santa Barbara Museum of Art,
Publisher Address: Santa Barbara :
Publication Dates: [2015]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Moholy-Nagy, Ĺaszĺo, > 1895-1946 > Exhibitions.
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."--
Item Description: "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."
Carrier Form: 160 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 9780300209976
0300209975
Index Number: ND522
CLC: J171.24-28
Call Number: J171.24-28/P148-1
Contents: The shape of things to come /
The human factor: applied abstraction and habitable space /
An introduction to Moholy's plastic materials /

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