| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 232 pages) : illustrations |
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e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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| 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 |
| 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 matter, autobiography and auto-graphy. Through interpretative readings of over twenty key artistic and photographic works, Kaplan graphically illustrates Moholy's signature effect in action. He shows how this effect plays itself out in the complex of relations between artistic originality and plagiarism, between authorial identity and anonymity, as well as in the problematic status of the work of art in the age of technical reproduction. In this way, the book reveals how Moholy's artistic practice anticipates many of the issues of postmodernist debate and thus has particular relevance today. Consequently, Kaplan clarifies the relationship between avant-garde Constructivism and contemporary deconstruction |
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Visual arts |
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Germany |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-228) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Moholy-Nagy, László, 1895-1946
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Moholy-Nagy, László, 1895-1946 -- Authorship
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Moholy-Nagy, László, 1895-1946 -- Autographs
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| SUBJECT |
Moholy-Nagy, László, 1895-1946 fast |
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Moholy-Nagy, László (1895-1946) ram |
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Moholy-Nagy, László. swd |
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Moholy-Nagy, László 1895-1946 gnd |
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Moholy-Nagy, László, 1895-1946. nli |
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Artists -- Hungary -- Biography -- History and criticism
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Biography as a literary form.
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Art, Hungarian -- 20th century.
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Constructivism (Art)
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Deconstruction.
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Biography.
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Deconstructivism (Architecture)
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Biographies as Topic
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biographies (literary works)
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Deconstructivist.
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biography (general genre)
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deconstruction (theory)
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ART -- Individual Artists -- Artists' Books.
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ART -- Individual Artists -- Essays.
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ART -- Individual Artists -- Monographs.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Artists, Architects, Photographers.
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Art, Hungarian
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Artists -- Biography
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Authorship
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Biography as a literary form
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Constructivism (Art)
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Deconstruction
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Beeldende kunsten.
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Art -- 20e siècle -- Hongrie.
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Biografie
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Artists -- Hungary -- Biography -- History and criticism.
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Art, Hungarian -- 20th century.
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Deconstruction.
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Hungary
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Electronic books
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Art criticism
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Autographs
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Art criticism.
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Critiques d'art.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780822382676 |
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0822382679 |
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