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László Moholy-Nagy

telehor

Internationale Zeitschrift für visuelle Kultur

In 1936 the first and only issue of the magazine telehor (Greek for tele-vision) was released in four languages, as a special edition on and by László Moholy-Nagy. The facsimile reprint of the magazine is accompanied by a commentary volume.

The reprint makes the magazine accessible again in terms of its artistic and theoretical-historical dimensions. Particular attention has been paid to the production process. Thus the volume appears spiral-bound, an ultramodern technique in the mid-1930s. The commentary contains an editorial statement that places the magazine, telehor, in the context of the art and media of the 1920s and 1930s and unlocks the position of the artistic avant-garde at the intersection of two epochs. It also contains new translations of the original texts: in Mandarin, Russian, Hungarian and Spanish.

In 1936 the first and only issue of the magazine telehor (Greek for tele-vision) was released in four languages, as a special edition on and by László Moholy-Nagy. The facsimile reprint of the magazine is accompanied by a commentary volume.

The reprint makes the magazine accessible again in terms of its artistic and theoretical-historical dimensions. Particular attention has been paid to the production process. Thus the volume appears spiral-bound, an ultramodern technique in the mid-1930s. The commentary contains an editorial statement that places the magazine, telehor, in the context of the art and media of the 1920s and 1930s and unlocks the position of the artistic avant-garde at the intersection of two epochs. It also contains new translations of the original texts: in Mandarin, Russian, Hungarian and Spanish.

Author(s): László Moholy-Nagy

Edited by Klemens Gruber and Oliver Botár

With a contribution by Sigfried Giedion

Design: Integral Lars Müller

21 x 29,7 cm, 8¼ x 11¾

138 pages, 69 illustrations

Ringbuch + Broschüre

2013, 978-3-03778-253-8, German
English
French
Spanish
Design History XX The Century of Print
CHF 40.00

László Moholy-Nagy

László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) was a painter, photographer, stage designer, typographer and teacher at the Bauhaus. Having embarked on a law degree in Budapest, he broke off his studies in 1918 and moved to Berlin two years later. There he forged contacts with German artists and in 1922 had his first solo show in Herwarth Walden’s gallery Der Sturm. One year later Moholy-Nagy was appointed to the Weimar State Bauhaus, where he focused on typography and experimental film. He became joint editor, with Walter Gropius, of the bauhaus journal as well as the Bauhausbücher series of books. In 1928 he left the Bauhaus and founded his own studio for typography and photomontage in Berlin. In 1933 he attended the 4th CIAM conference in Athens, before emigrating in 1934 first to Amsterdam and later to London. In 1937 he became director of the New Bauhaus in Chicago, which was later renamed School of Design. Moholy-Nagy remained in Chicago up to his death in 1946 and continued working as a freelance artist and designer.

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