Albers and Moholy-Nagy : from the Bauhaus to the New World

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Albers and Moholy-Nagy : from the Bauhaus to the New World

edited by Achim Borchardt-Hume

Tate, 2006

  • : pbk
  • : hardcover

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Exhibition catalogue

Catalogue of the exhibition "Albers and Moholy-Nagy: from the Bauhaus to the New world " held at Tate Modern, London, 9 March - 4 June 2006; Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany, 25 June - 1 Oct 2006; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2 Nov 2006 - 21 Jan 2007

Includes bibliographical references (p. 176-178) and index

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巻冊次

: hardcover ISBN 9780300120325

内容説明

This beautifully illustrated book highlights the contrasts and correspondences in the lives and work of two of Modernism s greatest innovators, Josef Albers (18881976) and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (18951947). Beginning in the 1930s, Albers and Moholy-Nagy each developed a rigorously abstract language that condensed art to its visual fundamentals: line, color, texture, light, and form. This language experienced a creative explosion during their Bauhaus years, when both artists moved freely between media and disciplines. Essays by leading scholars follow the artists separate paths through to their emigration to the United States, where each continued to push tirelessly the conventions of artistic practiceAlbers at Black Mountain College in North Carolina and then at Yale University, and Moholy-Nagy in Chicago at the New Bauhaus School and the Institute of Design. As highly influential teachers, Albers and Moholy-Nagy became important catalysts for the transmission of Modernist ideas from Europe to America. Spanning four decades and featuring works in a variety of media, including painting, collage, glass, moving sculpture, photography, film, furniture, and graphic design, Albers and Moholy-Nagy reveals for the first time the range of achievement of these two important figures and is essential to our understanding of the evolution of Modernism."
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9781854376381

内容説明

This extensively illustrated survey casts new light on the lives and work of two of Modernism's great pioneers. Josef Albers (1888-1976) and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1895-1947) were key figures at the Bauhaus in Germany, and following the rise of National Socialism and their exile, in the introduction of European Modernist ideas into American art and culture. At the Bauhaus the two artists' work condensed art to its visual fundamentals: line, colour, texture, light and form. "Albers and Moholy Nagy" reveals the extraordinary richness of both their oeuvres, illustrating many seldom-seen works in a variety of media, including glass, sculpture, painting, film, photo-collage, camera-less and early colour photography, and graphic and furniture design. Their work was shaped by similar questions: both rejected representational painting early on and explored pure abstraction; both were concerned with the Utopian belief in the ability of art to transform the individual and society; both responded to the impact of mass-production and scientific advances on the role of the artist. Once in America, Albers taught at Black Mountain College, where John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, Merce Cunningham and Jasper Johns, among others, were students. Moholy-Nagy taught at The New Bauhaus and founded the Institute of Design in Chicago. Their influence on the course of American art is inestimable. "Albers and Moholy-Nagy" creates a posthumous dialogue between these two seminal figures, concentrating on the years from 1920 to 1950. Critical essays are combined with less formal reminiscences from those who knew the artists personally. A selection of writings by the artists are also included.

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