Jean Epstein: Écrits sur le cinéma, 1921-1953, tome 1-2 (1974–75) [French]
Filed under book | Tags: · 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, avant-garde, cinema, film, film criticism, film history, film theory
Foreword by Henri Langlois
Introduction by Pierre Leprohon
Publisher Seghers, Paris, 1974–75
436 and 352 pages
via Reyovak
Tome 1: 1921-1947 (Foreword and Introduction are missing, 125 MB)
Tome 2: 1946-1953 (95 MB)
James Donald, Anne Friedberg, Laura Marcus (eds.): Close Up: Cinema And Modernism (2001)
Filed under book | Tags: · avant-garde, cinema, film, film history, film theory
Between 1927 and 1933, the journal “Close Up” championed a European avant-garde in film-making. This volume republishes articles from the journal, with an introduction and a commentary on the lives of, and complex relationships between, its writers and editors.
Publisher Continuum International Publishing Group, 2001
ISBN 0304335169, 9780304335169
352 pages
PDF (the link fixed on 2012-10-25)
Comment (0)László Moholy-Nagy: The Art of Light (2010) [Spanish]
Filed under book, catalogue | Tags: · art, avant-garde, bauhaus, constructivism, film, graphic design, light art, painting, photography, sculpture, typography
An artist and thinker of astounding energy and ability, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy was a true world citizen of the early twentieth century, an ambassador-at-large for Constructivism, Suprematism, Dada and the Bauhaus. He brought the same Constructivist optimism to every medium he tackled, from plexiglass and light sculpture to typography to his photographic experiments in color to his Suprematist canvases, his influential pedagogy at the Bauhaus and at the Institute of Design in Chicago. Moholy-Nagy’s concept of the arts as a totality, his pedagogy and his confidence in the new industrial culture that would level distinctions between art and craft led him into all fields of creative production. The ultimate modernist Renaissance man, Moholy-Nagy was prolific in so many realms that his detractors inevitably charged him with dilettantism. This accusation ignores his very real innovations in photography–for example his photograms–and light sculpture, as well as the fact that the artist’s aims possessed a conceptual unity in their common aspiration to make an “art of light.”
László Moholy-Nagy: The Art of Light presents Moholy-Nagy’s work in all of its glorious unity and diversity. Including more than 200 works, from painting, photography (black and white and color) and photograms to collages, films and graphic design, it emphasizes his greatest years of productivity, from 1922 to the end of his life. The Art of Light is the new definitive volume on this hero of modernism.
László Moholy-Nagy: El Arte de la Luz
Book coordination: Doménico Chiappe, Luisa Lucuix
Editor: Emilio Ruiz Mateo
Publisher: La Fábrica Editorial / Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid
ISBN: 8492841257, 9788492841424
264 pages
exhibition (Madrid, 2010)
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