Main entry:

Kostelanetz, Richard, compiler.

Title & Author:

Moholy-Nagy.

Publication:

New York, Praeger [1970]

Description:

xviii, 238 pages illustrations (some color), portrait 23 cm.

Series:

Documentary monographs in modern art

Notes:
Contributions chiefly by L. Moholy-Nagy.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-233).
Introduction -- Moholy-Nagy: the risk and necessity of artistic adventurism / Richard Kostelanetz -- In answer to your interview / L. Moholy-Nagy -- Letter to Herbert Read, London / L. Moholy-Nagy -- The contribution of the arts to social reconstruction / L. Moholy-Nagy -- Moholy-Nagy: the Chicago years / Sibyl Moholy-Nagy -- Painting -- Dynamic-constructive energy-system / L. Moholy-Nagy and Alfred Kemeny -- To post-impressionist painting in Hungary / Ernst Kállai -- From pigment to light / L. Moholy-Nagy -- Isms or art / L. Moholy-Nagy -- Letter to Fra. Kalivoda / L. Moholy-Nagy -- Subject without art / L. Moholy-Nagy -- In defense of "abstract" art / L. Moholy-Nagy -- Photography -- On 60 fotos by Moholy-Nagy / Franz Roh -- A new instrument of vision / L. Moholy-Nagy -- Photography in a flash / L. Moholy-Nagy -- Letter to Beaumont Newhall / L. Moholy-Nagy -- Space-time and the photographer / L. Moholy-Nagy -- Paths to the unleashed color camera / L. Moholy-Nagy -- Review of Moholy's achievement / Beaumont Newhall -- Design -- The new typography / L. Moholy-Nagy -- Bauhaus and typography / L. Moholy-Nagy -- Contemporary typography / L. Moholy-Nagy -- From wine jugs to lighting fixtures / L. Moholy-Nagy -- Design potentialities / L. Moholy-Nagy -- Industrial design / L. Moholy-Nagy -- Obituary note / Kenneth Parker -- Moholy-Nagy and the theater (excerpt) / Hans Curjel -- Sculpture-architecture -- Make a light modulator / L. Moholy-Nagy -- The new Bauhaus and space relationships / L. Moholy-Nagy -- On Moholy's sculpture / Jack W. Burnham -- Film -- Light -- a medium of plastic expression / L. Moholy-Nagy -- Dynamics of a metropolis: a film sketch / L. Moholy-Nagy -- Once a chicken, always a chicken / L. Moholy-Nagy -- Problems of the modern film / L. Mohly-Nagy -- Supplementary remarks on the sound and color film / L. Moholy-Nagy -- Light machines -- The light-display machine / Sibyl Moholy-Nagy -- Light display, black and white and gray / L. Moholoy-Nagy -- Light: a new medium of expression / L. Moholy-Nagy -- Light architecture / L. Moholy-Nagy -- On Moholy's light-display machine / Jack W. Burnham -- Education -- Education and the Bahuaus / L. Moholy-Nagy -- A new humanism / Herbert Read -- Declaration of loyalty / Faculty of the New Bahaus -- The Bauhaus in Chicago: Moholy-Nagy explains / L. Moholy-Nagy -- Letter to Moholy-Nagy / Piet Mondrian -- Letter to Robert Jay Wolff / L. Moholy-Nagy -- Evening classes / Chicago Institute of Design -- Official directory / Chicago Institute of Design -- Social philosophy -- Constructivism and the proletariat / L. Moholy-Nagy -- Position statement / MA Group -- Directness of the mind; detours of technology / L. Moholy-Nagy -- Analyzing the situation / L. Moholy-Nagy -- A proposal / L. Moholoy-Nagy -- Criticism in retrospect -- Moholy-Nagy / Sigfried Giedion -- A great teacher / Herbert Read -- A mine of perceptions and prophecies / Richard Kostelanetz -- From Theory and Design in the First Machine Age / Reyner Banham.
Dust jacket.

Subject:

Moholy-Nagy, László, 1895-1946.
MOHOLY-NAGY, LASZLO.
Moholy-Nagy, László, 1895-1946 Criticism and interpretation
Moholy-Nagy, László.
Constructivism (Art)
Jewish artists Hungary

Form/genre:

Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance) United States 20th century.

Added entries:

Moholy-Nagy, László, 1895-1946.
Kostelanetz, Richard
Documentary monographs in modern art.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 3296
Call No.: ID N7454.M6; ID:85-B3892
Status: Available