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HARDCOVER. Condition: FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: VERY GOOD. 1st Edition. 1st printing (with D-Z code on the colophon). large 8vo in blind embossed grey cloth covered boards, red and green lettering to spine, ix + 253pp on glossy art paper, plates in colour and (mainly) b/w . [CONDITION: A well preserved FINE very clean and tight unmarked copy (minute bump to bottom corner tip of front cover, pages slightly tanned) in a moderately edge-chipped VERY GOOD dust jacket with browned edges - from old sticky-tape on verso (looks presentable in its removable transparent protector) ] . To see more of our Art Monographs etc type DbbARTIST in the Keywords search box . . NOTE: Depending on destination this item may require an extra payment for insurance. If so, orders made by card will be completed only after you have approved any such extra cost. . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. Title illustration by Oskar Schlemmer. Typography by Moholy-Nagy. Numerous illustrations in and out of text, some printed in color; one folding plate; one printed overlay tissue guard. (illustrator). 1st Edition. Title illustration by Oskar Schlemmer. Typography by Moholy-Nagy. Numerous illustrations in and out of text, some printed in color; one folding plate; one printed overlay tissue guard. First edition. Association copy, inscribed by Moholy-Nagy; recipient most likely Ergy Landau. Publisher's device on half-title. Title page and facing page designed in Bauhaus typography. Original stiff white illustrated wrappers with black lettering on cover and spine, preserved with the original dust jacket; both artistically restored. 84 [4] p. Association copy of Die Bühne im Bauhaus, typographically designed by László Moholy-Nagy and inscribed by him to "Erzsi," most likely Ergy Landau. First edition of one of the most influential volumes in the Bauhausbücher series, devoted to stage practice and theatrical experimentation at the Bauhaus. Conceived under the general editorship of Gropius and visually shaped by Moholy-Nagy, the book documents the Bauhaus approach to performance, space, movement, light, and the relationship between body and architecture, treating the stage as a laboratory of modern form. Inscribed by László Moholy-Nagy to "Erzsi," most likely Ergy Landau (born Erzsébet "Erzsi" Landau; 1896-1967), a Hungarian-French photographer active in Paris from the early 1920s, associated with humanist portraiture and modernist photography. Trained in Vienna and Berlin, she established her own Paris studio and maintained close ties with Moholy-Nagy; according to later accounts, she may have introduced him to the practice of photography. Includes a major contribution by Oskar Schlemmer, Mensch und Kunstfigur (Human and Art Figure), with extensive illustrations and eighteen full-page plates related to the Triadisches Ballett. László Moholy-Nagy contributes Theater, Zirkus, Varieté, outlining historical, contemporary, and future concepts of theatre, including the "theatre of totality," illustrated with a three-color folding plate and a schematic score for Mechanische Exzentrik. Further contributions by Farkas Molnár, Kurt Schmidt, F. W. Bogler, Georg Teltscher, and Xanti Schawinsky, including a photomontage of the Bauhauskapelle. Illustrations partly printed in color. A core Bauhaus publication at the intersection of architecture, theatre, and graphic design, and one of the defining documents of interwar modernist stage theory. . Original stiff white illustrated wrappers with black lettering on cover and spine, preserved with the original dust jacket; both artistically restored First edition. Association copy, inscribed by Moholy-Nagy; recipient most likely Ergy Landau. Publisher?s device on half-title. Title page and facing page designed in Bauhaus typography. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Good to very good condition. First edition. Quarto. 241(1)pp. Original yellow cloth with red modern typography and design by Moholy-Nagy on covers and spine, protected by modern mylar. Black endpapers. Design, typography and layout by Moholy-Nagy. Illustrated with b/w reproductions of photographs by Moholy-Nagy, Koralle, Pestry Tyden, Herbert Bayer, Lucia Moholy, Eckner (Weimar), Alexander, Consemüller (Bauhaus), Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung, Weltspiegel, Ufa, Stavba, Atlantic, Lufthansa, Emelka, Wedekind (Dessau), Lux Feininger, Petschow, Krajewsky, Itting (Bauhaus), Jan Kamman, and others. The last volume of the Bauhaus book series, which was published between 1925 and 1930. The title "von material zu architektur" (from material to architecture) was a quote by Moholy-Nagy, expressing his idealistic & utopic, as well as brilliant, 'ahead-of-his-time' thought and ideas. Volume 14 is based on Moholy-Nagy's lectures from 1923-28 at the Bauhaus in which he expresses his artistic views. After offering a 'new view to the world' based on the art of painting in cubism, Moholy-Nagy stresses the role of "Tastsinn" (with "Tasttafeln, Tasttrommel, etc.), uses examples in sculpture, finally leading to the perception of space (architecture). Profusely illustrated with b/w reproductions of photographs showing works by Brancusi, Alexander Archipenko, Mataré, Barlach, Oskar Schlemmer, Picasso, Gerhard Spitzer, Rodin, da Vinci, Rudolf Belling, Rodschenko, Moholy-Nagy, Joost Schmidt, Anni Wildberg, Georg Gross, Gerda Marx, Sörensen-Popitz, Franz Ehrlich, Jacques Lipchitz, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, and others. Text in German. Cover somwhat rubbed, with spine sunned showing some water-staining and small ship at tail of spine. Very light chipping of red typography and design on covers. Stamp "Printed in Germany" on half title. Small dealer sticker on inside back cover. Contents: einleitung / I: erziehungsfragen / II: das material / III: das voumen (plastik) / IV: der raum (architektur).

Hardcover. Condition: Good+ to very good condition. First edition. Quarto. 221 (1)pp. Original yellow cloth with red modern typography and design by Moholy-Nagy on covers and spine, protected by modern mylar. Black endpapers. "With the images and remarks in this volume I want to report about my own work as architect and building organizer during my years at the Bauhaus in Dessau. This work is a product of the atmosphere that originated in those years of organizing the Bauhaus and it was a thrust - with all necessary consequences of the fight - to accomplish the new technical and formal results. The City of Dessau delegated the leading role to me - planning, assignment and the construction management - and therefore all jobs converged in my office and could be integrated consistently. All of the designs and architectural plans originated in my private office; despite the fact that I am publishing this buildings under the name "Bauhaus Buildings." For the public saw in these buildings justly the fruit of constant intellectual exchange at the Bauhaus and masters and workshops had planned and executed essential parts of the facilities independently." (Gropius foreword). The books is profusely illustrated with b/w photographs of exteriors and interiors of the buildings, their construction, architectural drawings and plans, including "Ufa" photos from the inauguration film of December 1926 and various filmstrips (Humboldt-Film) documenting apartments of Bauhaus masters. The photographers include Lucia Moholy, with the majority of photographs, Klaus Hertig, Lyonel Feininger, Fritz Wedekind, Lux Feininger, Erich Consemüller, Ise Gropius, and others. Contains list of 203 images at rear, yellow errata slips as issued, and publisher's advertisement of all 14 Bauhaus Books at rear. Text in German. Binding lightly rubbed with small smudge on back cover. Stamp "Printed in Germany" on title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Good to very good condition. Quarto. 140pp. Original yellow cloth with red modern typography and design by Moholy-Nagy on covers and spine, protected by modern mylar. Black endpapers. Illustrated with reproductions of photographs, collages & photomontages by Moholy-Nagy, Renger-Patzsch, A. Stieglitz, Man Ray, Lucia Moholy, Höch, F. M. Duncan, Riebicke, Charlotte Rudolf, J. B. Polak, Muche / Bauhaus, Citroen / Bauhaus, Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung, UfA, and others. This 8th volume of the "Bauhausbücher" series includes photographs from the films Tatjana, Fridericus Rex, Arnold Fanck's Wunder des Schneeschuhs and Dr. Mabuse. "In this theoretical treatise in text and pictures Moholy-Nagy condemns the subjectivity of pictorialism (using an Alfred Stieglitz picture as a punch bag), and sets out the framework of what he calls the 'New Vision', featuring his own work and that of others. The New Vision thesis put forward in this book argues that the camera should be left alone to record whatever happens to be before the lens: 'In the photographic camera we have the most reliable aid to a beginning of objective vision'. This is a typically modernist call to respect the inherent qualities of a medium - form follows function - but is very different from the American purist dogma of the 'straight' photography variety. Moholy-Nagy, heavily influenced by the Constructivists, embraces film, montage, typography, cameraless photography, news and ulitarian photography. Throughout, the pedagogical, utopian tone of the Bauhaus is evident. The images selected display all the formal innovations of New Vision photography - dramatically angled chimneys, patterns of flight and movement and so on. But Moholy-Nagy stresses the medium's distinctions from fine art. Photography, especially combined with type, would be a new 'visual literature'. Objectivity, clarity, communication rather than transcendental subjectivity were the primary goals of the new photography. The modern photographer would be a worker, adept at displaying his skills in the service of society, and equally at home in the related fields of photomontage, typography or film. The photographer of the future would be a contemporary renaissance man or woman - and none fitted the bill better than Moholy-Nagy - the renaissance sparked this time not by the printing press but by the camera: "The traditional painting has become a historical relic and is finished with. Eyes and ears have been opened and are filled at every moment with a wealth of optical and phonetic wonders. A few more vitally progressive years, a few more ardent followers of photographic technique and it will be a matter of universal knowledge that photography was one of the most important factors in the dawn of a new life." (Parr & Badger, The Photobook, vol. 1, p. 92/93). Text in German. Binding with very light staining and lightly age-toned along edges. Contains stamp "Printed in Germany" on half-title. Text pages with very light age-toning. Contents: Einführung / Von der Pigmentmalerei bis zum reflektorisch geworfenen Lichtspiel / Die Schlagwortproblematik optischer Gestaltung / Über das gegenständliche und Gegenstandslose / Tafelbild, Architektur und "Gesamtkunstwerk" / Die statische und kinetische optische Gestaltung / Haus - Pinakothek / Fotografie / Produktion Reproduktion / Fotografie ohne Kamera: Das "Fotogramm" / Die Zufunft des fotografischen Verfahrens / Typofoto / Das simultane oder Polykino / Von technischen Möglichkeiten und Forderungen / Abbildungen (illustrated section). Zweite veränderte Auflage, Drittes bis fünftes Tausend (Second revised edition).

16 Seiten auf kräftigem Papier (davon 4 S. 'Verzeichnis der ausgestellten Arbeiten') mit 1 halb- und 3 ganzseitigen montierten teils fotografischen Kunstdrucktafeln; lose einliegend: 8-zeilige Karte ''LETTER TO A GROUP OF STUDENTS'' (11 x 23 cm), datiert ''JANUARY 14, 1964'' von 'Walter Gropius'. - Zusammen mit 9 numerisch folgenden Katalogen des Museums in Halbpergament-Einband der Zeit mit diagonal-linienförmig 'marmorierten' Buchdeckeln; 8vo.(ca. 21 x 14,5 cm). *** SELTENER ORIGINALKATALOG; ''Zur Einführung: Das Gesamtwerk Prof. Dr. Walter Gropius' wurde erstmals zu Anfang des Jahres in Paris gezeigt, anläßlich einer Ausstellung des Deutschen Werkbundes , die als ausländische Veranstaltung beim 'Salon' eingegliedert [wurde]. . . Was nun hier in Winterthur in Plänen, Photos und Modellen gezeigt wird, ist eine in sich geschlossen Wanderausstellung, die nach Schluß in Zürich und andern ausländischen Städten gezeigt werden wird. . . Sie ist eine Veranstaltung der Bauwelt-Musterschau Berlin. . .''. - WEITERE KATALOGE IM SELBEN SAMMELBAND: NR. 54a 'Ausstellung handwerklich guter, wohlfeiler Bucheinbände. - Deutsche Wanderausstellung.' / Sonderausstellung 'Das Tier in der Kunst. - Arbeiten und Zeichnungen sibirischer Völker.', 22. Februar bis 22. März 1931 (15 S.); NR. 55 'Ausstellung von Schülerarbeiten der Gewerbeschule Winterthur - Weibliche Abteilung.', 29. März bis 6. April 1931 (8 S.); NR. 56 'Ausstellung Einfacher Hausrat.', 6. Mai bis 14. Juni 1931 (12 S.); NR. 57 'Ausstellung Neue Sportbauten', 21. Juni bis 19. Juli 1931 (23 S.); NR. 58 'Ausstellung Afrikanische Negerkunst. - Sammlung Han Coray, Lugano.', 17. September bis 18. Oktober 1931 (11 S.); NR. 59 'Ausstellung Tschechoslowakische Glasarbeiten', 22. Oktober bis 15. November 1931 (24 S.); NR. 59a '25 Jahre Porzellan Langenthal. - Sonder-Ausstellung.', 22. Oktober bis 15. November 1931 (11 S.); NR. 60 'Verkaufsausstellungen Winterthurer Kunstgewerbe [und] Schweizer Handwerk.', 26. November bis 24. Dezember 1931 (12 S.); ALLE KATALOGE MIT MONTIERTEN BILDTAFELN. --- Äussere Einbandecken leicht berieben, Papieraussenkante leicht stockfleckig, die 'Kartenbeilage' etwas knickspurig; ansonsten sehr gutes Exemplar.