Sibyl Moholy-Nagy — Moholy-Nagy: Experiments in Totality

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1950 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Sibyl Moholy-Nagy's biography of her husband, the Hungarian painter and photographer Laszlo Moholy-Nagy The first edition, first printing, with 'first edition' and D-Z code to colophon, as called for.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.With vignette monochrome illustrations and photographs throughout.Architectural and art historian Sibyl Moholy-Nagy offers a biography of the life and work of her late husband, Laszlo, the Hungarian painter and photographer, and professor in the Bauhaus school. His work was influenced by constructivism, and he believed in the integration of technology and industry into the arts. He wrote books and articles advocating a utopian type of high modernism. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Light shelf wear to back strip tail, otherwise externally excellent. Dust wrapper lightly age toned to back strip, with significant losses of paper to back strip head and tail. Losses of paper and closed tears to head and tail of front wrap, with small chips to head of rear wrap, and small closed tear to rear wrap tail. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine . Ill.: László Moholy-Nagy. Near Fine/Good.