Tasi JoyceABAA
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: Painting After Photography
2018172919Oakland CA: University of California Press 2018. Hardcover. VG/VG. Gray cloth boards with black stamped spine lettering. BW-photographic dust jacket with white and black lettering. x 210 pp. Color and BW illustrations. "Laszlo Moholy-Nagy is the first monograph on Moholy to attend to the fraught but central role painting played in shaping his aesthetic project. His reputation has been that of an artist far more interested in exploring the possibilities offered by photography film and other new media than in working with what he once called the 'anachronistic' medium of painting. And yet with the exception of the period between 1928 and 1930 Moholy painted throughout his career. Joyce Tsai argues that his investment in painting especially after 1930 emerged not only out of pragmatic and aesthetic considerations but also out of a growing recognition of the economic political and ethical compromises required by his large-scale technologically mediated projects aimed at reforming human vision. Without abandoning his commitment to fostering what he called New Vision Moholy came to understand painting as a particularly plastic field in which the progressive possibilities of photography film and other emergent media could find provisional expression."--Provided by publisher. University of California Press hardcover books
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