Painting, photography, film. With a note by Hans M. Wingler and a postscript by Otto Stelzer. Translated by Janet Seligman.

Main entry:

Moholy-Nagy, László, 1895-1946.

Title & Author:

Painting, photography, film. With a note by Hans M. Wingler and a postscript by Otto Stelzer. Translated by Janet Seligman.

Publication:

Description:

150 pages illustrations 26 cm

Series:

MIT fine arts ; 220

Notes:
Translation of Malerei, Fotografie, Film.
"This edition is a translation and facsimile of the second German edition of Malerei, Fotographie, Film published in 1927 by the Bauhaus Press"--P. [4] of cover.
Introduction -- From painting with pigment to light-displays projected with a reflector -- Problems of terminology in optical composition -- On the objective and the non-objective -- Easel painting, architecture and 'Gesamtkunstwerk' -- Static and kinetic optical composition -- Domestic pinacotheca -- Photography -- Production, reproduction -- Photography without camera. The 'photogram' -- The future of the photographic process -- Typophoto -- Simultaneous or poly-cinema -- On technical possibilities and demands -- Illustrations (some with explanations) -- Dynamic of the Metropolis: Sketch for a film, also typophoto -- List of illustrations -- Sources of the typophotos of 'Dynamic of the Metropolis' -- Editor's note -- Postscript: Otto Stelzer: Moholy-Nagy and his vision.
Translated from the German.

Summary:

This translation of the original 1925-27 Moholy-Nagy book presents his innovative Rayographs made without a camera, the creative X-rays, super-wide-angle fisheye pictures, double prints, collages, montages, and the Bauhaus artist's thoughts on the interrelationship of type, audio, and visual perception.

ISBN:

0262130580
9780262130585
026263046X (pbk.)
9780262630467 (pbk.)

Subject:

Moholy-Nagy, László, 1895-1946
Photography, Artistic.
Art and photography.
Form (Aesthetics)
Photographie artistique.
Art et photographie.
Forme (Esthétique)
art photography.
forms (benches)
forms (type composition equipment)
format.
forms (documents)

Form/genre:

Writings.
Facsimiles (reproductions)

Added entries:

Wingler, Hans Maria
Stelzer, Otto
MIT fine arts ; 220.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 142819
Call No.: ND37.M698.A35 1973
Status: Available

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