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Laszlo Moholy-Nagy : biographical writings / Louis Kaplan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kaplan, Louis, 1960-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Moholy-Nagy, László, 1895-1946.
- Moholy-Nagy, László.
- Artists--Hungary--Biography--History and criticism.
- Artists.
- Art, Hungarian--20th century.
- Art, Hungarian.
- Deconstruction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (250 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, c1995.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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, the book demonstrates how the signature inscribed by ""Moholy"" operates in a double space, interweaving signified object and signifying
- Contents:
- Introduction: Signing on Moholy
- Production-Reproduction
- Forging Ahead: The Plague of Plagiarism
- It Works
- The Anonymous Hand
- Moholy: The Significance of the Signature
- Signature's Postscript: Moholisch/Like Moholy.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-228) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613062871
- 9781283062879
- 1283062879
- 9780822382676
- 0822382679
- OCLC:
- 191222264
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