LASZLO MOHOLY

This book examines crucial philosophical questions L. Moholy-Nagy explored in theory and practice throughout his career. Why paint i n a photographic age? Why work by hand when technology holds so much promise? The stakes of painting, or not painting, were tied to much larger considerations of the ways art, life, and modernity were linked for Moholy and his avant-garde peers. Tsai's close analy sis reveals how Moholy's experience in exile led to his attempt to recuperate painting, not merely as an artistic medium but as the space wher...[Read more]