Description
Book SynopsisMarking the centenary of the birth of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946), this book offers a fresh approach to the Bauhaus artist and theorist's multifaceted life and work - an approach that redefines the very idea of biographical writing.
Trade Review"A significant contribution to the emergent field of ‘New’ Art History and Criticism. This study of signature and its effects generates a new approach to biography, by redefining it not as a compilation of historical details or facts, but rather as a system of production/reproduction, a signifying economy whose terms challenge the borders of literature and the visual arts."—
Dalia Judovitz, author of
Dialectic and Narrative"This study addresses the question of how to write about the life and work of an artist after the ‘death of the author’ theorized in poststructuralism. I know of no other study that attempts to do with any figure what Kaplan has done with Moholy. It is a work of extraordinary originality and importance. A tour de force."—
Gregory Ulmer, author of
Applied Grammatology and
Heuretics
