Albers and Moholy-Nagy : from the Bauhaus to the new world / edited by Achim Borchardt-Hume.

030012032X (Yale)
9780300120325 (Yale)

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2006]

©2006

English

190 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm

N6888.A5 A4 2006

709.22

This beautifully illustrated book highlights the contrasts and correspondences in the lives and work of two of Modernism's greatest innovators, Josef Albers (1888-1976) and László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1947). 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 practice--Albers 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.

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Tate Modern, London, March 9-June 4, 2006, the Kunsthalle Bielefeld, June 25-October 1, 2006, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 2, 2006-Janary 21, 2007.
"First published 2006 by order of the Tate Trustees by Tate Publishing, a division of Tate Enterprises, Ltd., London"--Title page verso.

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

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