Laboratory of Vision.

Laboratory of Vision. Photographs by Moholy-Nagy. Kokushokankokai, 2011. 308 pp., illustrated throughout, 20x27cm.

View inside the entire book here (it's pretty wonderful).

This book was published in conjunction with the exhibition Moholy-Nagy/In Motion at the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (Japan), and with support of the Moholy-Nagy Foundation.


Book description:

"This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition ‘Moholy-Nagy/In Motion’ introducing works spanning the full oeuvre of Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946), an artist who brought new vision to the art of the 20th century.

As a prominent member of the avant-garde art movements between the two World Wars, he developed an artistic ideal of creating works of light and motion. The pursuit of his career as a creative artist and art educator took Moholy-Nagy from his native Hungary to Vienna, then on to Germany, the Netherlands and Great Britain and finally to the United States.

Working in painting, photography, sculpture, film, graphic design, stage design and publishing, Moholy-Nagy’s career addressed many of the new issues confronting art in the 20th century, such as the relationship between art and industrial technology and the new media of information and communications.

This exhibition marks Japan’s first full-scale retrospective of the art of Moholy-Nagy and spans the artist’s full career from its earliest years to its last in some 300 works and related materials and documents."