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Laszlo Moholy-Nagy : biographical writings / Louis Kaplan.

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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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