Moholy's edit : the avant-garde at sea, August 1933
Chris Blencowe
Bok · Engelsk · 2019
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| Omfang | 197 sider : illustrasjoner (noen i farger)
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| Opplysninger | In August 1933, during the 4th International Congress of Modern Architecture (CIAM) held at sea on the Patris II and in Athens, the elite of the European architectural and artistic avant-garde took to the Aegean islands in a barely-seaworthy 'nutshell' that would bring them to the brink of disaster. The 'motley crew' included Le Corbusier, Fernand Léger, Amédée Ozenfant, Sigfried Giedion, Cor van Eesteren and Otto Neurath. Crucial to the success of the surreal odyssey were members of the Greek avant-garde: Christian Zervos, publisher of Cahiers d'Art; Tériade, editor of Minotaure; and the painter Ghika. Also on board was László Moholy-Nagy, capturing the four days and nights in his legendary documentary Architect's Congress, around which this book is built and which can be interpreted as a 'message in a bottle' thrown into the sea, that 'might take decades for someone to find and read'. Drawing on previously unpublished material including Moholy-Nagy's poetically ironic letter to his future wife, Sibyl, and forensic examination of Le Corbusier's carnet, the authors reconstruct the epiphanies, preoccupations and estrangements of the key personae at this critical moment in European history
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| ISBN | 3-03778-566-7. - 978-3-03778-566-9
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