Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: Biographical Writings

by Louis Kaplan

Book Overview

Marking the centenary of the birth of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946), this book offers a new approach to the Bauhaus artist and theorist's multifaceted life and work-an approach that redefines the very idea of biographical writing.
In Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Louis Kaplan applies the Derridean deconstructivist model of the "signature effect" to an intellectual biography of a Constructivist artist. Inhabiting the borderline between life and work,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822315920
• ISBN13: 9780822315926
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"