Camouflage
Marcia Feuerstein and I have written a chapter in Architectures of Hiding (Routledge, 2024) that examines “Camouflage after the Bauhaus: Oskar Schlemmer, László Moholy-Nagy, and György Kepes.” In this chapter, […]
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Schwitters’ Bolte + Moholy–Nagy’s Huhn
László Moholy-Nagy designed several theater and film sketches throughout his career by creating collages or, using his term, Photoplastiks. One of these collage sketches – Huhn Bleibt Huhn (Once a […]
Lichtrequisit
As Oliver Botar has demonstrated in his Sensing the Future: Moholy-Nagy, Media and the Arts, the Lichtrequisit was not conceived to be viewed as a sculpture in itself. It was […]
Prototype
In 1937, the Association of Arts and Industries invited László Moholy–Nagy to develop and direct a school of design and architecture in Chicago based upon the Bauhaus model of an […]
Color–Light–Plays
While a student at the Bauhaus, Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack developed equipment to produce experiments with Farblichtspiele (Color-Light-Plays, c. 1924) on continuous film. In Malerei Photographie Film (Painting, Photography, Film, 1925), Bauhaus […]
X-rays
Between 1869–1875, English physicist William Crookes developed the cathode ray tube, also known as a Crookes Tube. His and others’ experiments with the application of high voltages to a partially […]
Dynamic of the Metropolis
In a speech made at an informal general meeting of the Royal British Institute of Architects on December 9, 1936, László Moholy-Nagy outlined the spatial concepts that he elaborated in […]
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