ALBERS AND MOHOLY-NAGY
FROM THE BAUHAUS TO THE NEW WORLD
2006
176 Pages
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781854376381
Language: English
Category: Contemporary art monographs
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...