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conversations.value: What could be a title for a book about Moholy-Nagy, Laszlo, Throughout with the genre: Arts & Photography, Individual Artists?
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conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'Laszlo Moholy-Nagy'
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conversations.value: What is the first five paragraphs for this book? End with the sentence ' 6 x 9¼.'.
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conversations.value: Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
  PHOTOGRAPHS BY MAN RAY: 105 WORKS, 1920-1934, Man Ray. Here is a treasury of Ray's finest photographic work, arranged in five groupings: general subject, female figures, women's faces, celebrity portraits, and rayographs ("cameraless" compositions, created by resting objects on unexposed film). 105 photos, including one in color. Texts by Ray and others. 128pp. 9 x 12¼.
  SCHIELE DRAWINGS: 44 WORKS: Egon Schiele. Treasury of portraits, character studies, nudes, and more, by great Viennese Expressionist. Characteristic focus on inner psychological states and hidden personality traits of subjects. 48pp. 8¼ x 11.
  CAMERA WORK: A PICTORIAL GUIDE, Alfred Steiglitz (edited by Marianne Fulton Margolis). The most important periodical in the history of art photography was Camera Work, edited and published by Alfred Stieglitz from 1903 to 1917. This volume contains all 559 illustrations that ever appeared in its pages, including hundreds of important photographs by the preeminent photographers of the time: Eduard Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Clarence White, and many others. 176pp. 8 x 11¼.
  STEINLEN CATS, Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen. 66 drawings and 8 picture stories of great illustrator's favorite study—cats! 48pp. 8¼ x 11.
  GODS' MAN: A NOVEL IN WOODCUTS, Lynd Ward. A powerful, passionate novel—told entirely through 139 intricate woodcuts—artist Lynd Ward invented the concept of a wordless novel with this autobiographical account of his struggles with his craft and with life in the 1920s. Top-quality, low-cost republication of a longtime collectors' item. 160pp. 6 x 9¼.
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conversations.value: A STUDY OF MAYA ART: ITS SUBJECT MATTER AND HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT, Herbert J. Spinden. Landmark classic interprets Maya symbolism, estimates styles, covers ceramics, architecture, murals, and stone carvings as art forms. More than 750 illustrations. 341pp. 8 x 11¼.
  CHINESE ARCHITECTURE: A PICTORIAL HISTORY, Liang Ssu-ch'eng. More than 240 rare photographs and drawings depict temples, pagodas, tombs, bridges, and imperial palaces comprising much of China's architectural heritage. 152 halftones, 94 diagrams. xxv+201pp. 10¾ x 9.
  A GUIDE TO JAPANESE PRINTS AND THEIR SUBJECT MATTER, Basil Stewart British connoisseur describes in detail the subject of famous Japanese color prints using 274 reproductions of works by Hokusai, Hiroshige, Utamaro, Shunyei, and other masters. Bibliography. Index. 576pp. 65 x 10.
  AFRICAN DESIGN: AN ILLUSTRATED SURVEY OF TRADITIONAL CRAFTWORK, Margaret Trowell. Nearly 200 handsome illustrations-from repetitive motifs in fabrics to carvings on bowls, drinking vessels, and door panels. Each object is identified and tribal source cited. 197 b/w illustrations. 156pp. 8 x 11.
  MAYA DESIGNS, Wilson G. Turner. More than 40 authentic Maya designs-details from murals, vases, codexes, instruments, glyphs, etc.—all with informative captions. 48pp. 8¼ x 11.
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conversations.value: In the magazine "i 10" (issued in Holland) Heinrich Jacoby announced an article on "The common biological basis of all creative work." The article was unfortunately never published but the title has been vindicated beyond doubt by Jacoby's previous works.
  See also: Dr. Rudolf Carnap: "Der Raum," Kantstudien, Berlin, 1922, and "Der logische Aufbau der Welt," Weltkreisverlag, Berlin-Schlachtensee, 1928.
  In the "Buch der 1000 Wunder" by Fürst and Moszkowski (46th to 48th thousand, Albert Langen Verlag, Munich) there is a description of some experiments of interest in this connection. "Das wirbelnde Meer-schweinchen" (swirling porpoise), p. 106 treats of the localization of the sense of balance; "Ein Schritt vom Wege" (a step from the path), p. 60, of space orientation; "Biene und Geometrie" (The bee and geometry), p. 83, also deals with the latter.
  The intuitive is most accurately understood as a speeded-up, subconscious logic, parallel to conscious thought in all save its greater delicacy and fluidity. Usually the deeper meanings so often ascribed to the intuitive more properly belong to sensory apprehension. Here resides the ineffable. This kind of experience is fundamentally non-verbal but it is not inarticulate to the visual and other senses. Intuitive in the verbal universe is always potentially explicable. Intuitive in the plastic sense, in all the arts, including poetry, is a matter never, probably, capable of conscious verbalization.
  Under the influence of cubist collages, Schwitter's "Merz" painting and dadaism's brazen courage, I started out with my photomontages, too. This led me in the same period to the rediscovery of the technique of the photogram (cameraless photography).