Lazlo Moholy – Nagy : The New Vision [ Bauhaus , First English Edition ]
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First English edition of The New Vision From Material To Architecture an important early Bauhaus work from artist and art theorist Lazlo Moholy – Nagy
Moholy – Nagy, Lazlo. Hoffmann, Daphne, trans. The New Vision: From Material To Architecture. New York: Brewer, Warren, and Putnam Inc. [1930?]. First English Edition.
‘The New Vision’ has proved to be more than a personal credo of an artist. It has become a standard grammar of modern design.
– Walter Gropius, 1947. Introduction to Fourth edition.
One of the most prolific and active members of the Bauhaus school, Lazlo Moholy – Nagy was offered his professorship by Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius in 1922. Particularly interested in painting, photography, design, theater, film and advertising, Moholy – Nagy developed unique theories on the use of space in composition, particularly abstract composition, and the means of comprehending space through the manipulation of light. Originally published as “Von Material zu Architektur” in Munich in 1928, The New Vision serves as an attempt to define and exemplify the new ideas emerging from Moholy – Nagy ’s artwork as well as his contemporaries like Pablo Picasso and others in the fields of painting, photography, sculpture and collage among other forms.
Translated from the German by Daphne M Hoffmann for this first English edition published in 1930 with a third edition published in 1938. In 1947, the year after Moholy – Nagy’s death, when The New Vision was rereleased in a fourth edition with an introductory essay from Bauhaus pioneer and Moholy – Nagy’s personal friend Walter Gropius.
Three copies in OCLC as of July 2022.
8vo, 191pp, grey – brown cloth boards with title and author printed in red on front (author’s name repeats on spine). Front board bruised midway down fore edge with two small scuffs to title. Faded ring along lower left board corner. Spine sunned with rubbing to ends. Small stain back board top edge. Pastedowns darkened and toned. Some interior foxing. Minor fore margin wrinkling up to page 35. Very good condition.
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