Seminar III In Motion László Moholy-Nagy as a Transnational Artist 1366943 Submitted in part fulfilment for the degree of Postgraduate Diploma in History and Business of the Contemporary Art Market IESA/University of Warwick February 2014
Seminar III
In Motion
László Moholy-Nagy as a Transnational Artist
1366943
Submitted in part fulfilment for the degree of Postgraduate Diploma in History and Business of the Contemporary Art Market
IESA/University of Warwick
February 2014
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Table of Contents
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS II
INTRODUCTION 1
TRANSNATIONALISM AS A METHODOLOGY 2
AVANT-GARDE AND INTERNATIONALISM IN BERLIN 4
PUBLICATIONS 5
DADA 7
CONSTRUCTIVISM 9
THE BAUHAUS YEARS 10
BERLIN, AMSTERDAM, LONDON AND THE U.S. 12
CONCLUSION 15
BIBLIOGRAPHY 16
ILLUSTRATIONS 17
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List of Illustrations
Figure I
László Moholy-Nagy and Lajos Kassák, Buch Neuer Künstler [Book of New Artists], Book spread (front and back cover), 1922
Figure II
László Moholy-Nagy, Malerei, Photographie, Film, Book spread, 1925.
Figure III
László Moholy-Nagy, Untitled, photogram, 1943, size and collection unknown
Figure IV
László Moholy-Nagy, Nickel Sculpture, 1921, Nickel plated iron welded, 33,6 x 17,5 x 23,8 cm, New York, The Museum of Modern Art
Figure IV
Congress of Constructivists and Dadaists, 1922, Moholy Nagy is in the last row, the third from right to left. Also in the picture are van Doesburg, El Lissitzki, Hans Richter. Photographer Unknown
Figure V
László Moholy-Nagy, Light Prop for an Electric Stage, 1930, Metal and plastic, electric motor, 151 x 70 x 70 cm, Cambridge (MA) Busch Resinger Museum
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In Motion – László Moholy-Nagy as a Transnational Artist
Introduction
László Moholy-Nagy was born in Hungary in 1895 and died in Chicago
at the age of 51. Having lived in five different countries throughout his
somewhat concise lifetime, he died as a North-American citizen. This was a
turbulent period in global history: he witnessed two world wars, as well a great
number of social and political transformations that would come as the aftermath.
The study In Motion: László Moholy-Nagy as a Transnational Artist sheds light
on Moholy-Nagy’s artistic undertakings, through the methodology of
transnationalism. ‘In Motion’ is a reference not only to the artist’s constant
relocations, but also to his last publication, Vision in Motion (1946), where he
states that ‘vision in motion is seeing while moving’.1
The significance of the transnational approach lies firstly on the fact that
the artist cannot be fit into a specific movement, neither was affiliated to a any
particular political current; secondly, on the aspect that Moholy-Nagy’s
biography and oeuvre evolved close together in a deep dynamism. His attitude
was that of engendering, practicing, supporting and teaching artistic or political
initiatives whenever he found those met his ideals.
1 László Moholy-Nagy, Vision in Motion (Chicago, Paul Theobald and Company, 1947), p. 12
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Transnationalism as a methodology
Interpreting Moholy-Nagy’s trajectory through a transnational approach
is relevant in the sense that his artistic production and biography faded
geographical, cultural and socio-political borders. Faithful to the belief that art
had the transformation power that would lead to a utopic society, Moholy was
constantly updating and superposing different concepts and visual languages
learned through an international network of artists and thinkers. Eventually, he
was able to surpass the idea of cosmopolitism, as well as that of internationalism
– both at the centre of the avant-garde’s reasoning.
The avant-gardes and its artistic movements flourished in the 1900’s,
while artists begun to widely interact across national borders; as a result, terms as
cosmopolitism, inter and supra-nationalism gained different nuances.
Transnationalism is a term that, by then, had not yet been incorporated in the
theoretical discourse; accordingly, transnationalism can be considered a
contemporary methodology that aims at an updated approach of past events.2
For the present study, it is important to differentiate transnationalism
from internationalism. For Bayly, both terms have the same meaning, with the
difference that transnational implies a sense of movement and interpenetration,
being usually ‘associated with the study of diasporas, social or political, which
cross national boundaries’.3 Moreover, flux and circulation are central concerns
in the transnational approach: ‘[it] is not simply that historical processes are
made in different places [internationalism] but that they are constructed in the
2 Patricia Seed in: Bayly, C. A., Sven Beckert, Matthew Connelly, Isabel Hofmeyr, Wendy Kozol, Patricia Seed, ‘AHR Conversation: On Transnational History’, The American Historical Review, Vol. 111, No. 5 (2006), p. 1442 3 Bayly (2006), p. 1444
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movement between places, sites, and regions’.4
Additionally, transnational history ‘acknowledges the extraordinary
importance of states, empires, and the like, [but] it pays attention to networks,
processes, beliefs and institutions that transcend these politically defined
spaces’.5 To summarize, the transnational methodology targets at transcending
the nation-state’s politically defined territory, in order to focus on cultural and
economic circulation and shifts, provoked by people’s movements across
national frontiers. Moholy-Nagy duly stated that he did not believe in art as
much as he believed in people.6
As Beckert defines, ‘The transnational approach differs from the others
because it transcends the political and geographical territories by connecting
various parts of the world to one another through networks, institutions, ideas,
and processes’.7 Accordingly, a transnational approach of Lázló Moholy-Nagy’s
artistic practice is proposed through the analysis of these same connecting
strands: the investigation of his personal networks, the institutions he related
with, the creative concepts he developed, and the mediums he employed.
Avant-garde and internationalism in Berlin
As modernism settled, the avant-garde movements were established
across Europe, conveying utopian ideals of liberty, fraternity and equality.8 As a
4 Hofmeyr (2006), p. 1444 5 Beckert, (2006), p. 1454-1459 6 Hattula Moholy-Nagy in: Albers and Moholy-Nagy: From the Bauhaus to the New World (exhibition catalogue, Tate Modern, London, 9 March – 4 June 2006) ed. Tate Publishing (London: 2006), p.115 7 Beckert (2006), p. 1446 8 Éva Forgács in: Berg, Hubert F. Van Den, Lidia Gluchowska, Eds., Transnationality, Internationalism and Nationhood – European Avant-Garde in the First Half of the Twentieth-Century (Walpole: Peeters, 2013), p. 145
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consequence of the shock caused by the Great War, those artists aspired to
improve and transform human society in its integrity. Striving to rethink and
reconfigure society through art, the concepts that shaped avant-garde artist’s
discourse and production usually travelled across countries being remodelled,
rethought or reinvented as they circulated. This circulation of people and
information is arguably avant-garde’s main transnational feature.
Before the Great War, the first exchanges between Parisian and German
artists took place. By the 1910’s, transnational displays in galleries such as Der
Sturm were seen (Moholy would work with this gallery later); artists from
different countries were shown in relation to one another. Simultaneously,
Meier-Graefe’s theories contemplated art’s autonomy above nationality issues; in
contrast, other critics resented the French influence while Der Brücke became
referential for German Expressionism.9 These opposite points of view regarding
a nationalist art production would prepare the ground for the avant-gardes’
internationalist requirements in Germany, where circumstances particularly
favoured discussions over nationalism.
Moholy-Nagy was among the many intellectuals who left Hungary due to
communist-oriented political inclinations made public during the Hungarian
Soviet Republic. He moved to Berlin in 1920, quickly engaging himself with the
avant-garde network that was established in Eastern Europe, and orbited mainly
around the Berliner scene. As Éva Forgács states, during that time, ‘The choice
to live in … Berlin as an artist … entailed participation in a highly politicized
9 Timothy Benson in: Berg, Hubert F. Van Den, Lidia Gluchowska, Eds., (2013), p. 7
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discourse between an old and a fledging new Germany’.10 The country had lost
the war and the Weimar Republic had been established as an effort towards a
politically and socially renewed country; as a consequence, reflections upon the
remodelling of ideologies were constantly at stake.
In the avant-garde context, the term international as an opposition to
nationalist ideals, ‘also gained the potential to be activated and contest the social
conditions around it’.11 By the 1920’s, the term had already gained a political
connotation: in conjunction with utopian and anarchist propositions, it had
become a form of activism in the internationalist movements, largely inspired by
the 1917 Russian Revolution.
Publications
Namely two factors contributed to the debate and dissemination of the
aesthetic and political ideals spread among the many vanguard groups. Firstly,
technological advances allowed people and things to move faster across
territories, diminishing distances and facilitating communication; secondly, the
surge of publications widely produced and distributed, containing texts, poetry
and visual works.12 Periodicals such as Ma or Der Sturm, frequently debated art,
nationalism and its concerns, as different approaches were given to it: from
Schwitters supranationalism, to Dada’s internationalism, or the expressionists’
late nationalism.
10 Forgács (2013), p. 145 11 Benson (2013), p. 2 12 Berg, Hubert F. Van Den, Lidia Gluchowska (2013), pp. i-xx
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Before moving to Berlin, Moholy spent a year in Vienna in 1919. There,
he contributed to the magazine Ma (Today). Published since 1916 by Lajos
Kassák, who was also a Hungarian emigrant, it propagated, among other
principles, the abolition of the nationhood and social classes.13 At the beginning,
the publication was inclined to expressionism, but with the influence and
connections proposed by Moholy, who became its Berlin correspondent, it would
then be closely connected to the Berliner avant-garde.
In 1922 the partnership between Moholy and Kassák led to the release of
the Book of New Artists, an innovative bilingual edition mainly comprised of
photographs (Fig. 1). The unprecedented creation of parallels between design,
technology, architecture and fine art, worked as a comprehensive representation
of the visual vocabulary being developed at that moment. It embraced the praise
for the machine inherited from the futurists, with images of newly released items
such as movie projectors or cars, shown alongside architecture shots, artworks or
musical scores. Another relevant aspect, is that the book could be understood by
everyone regardless the background or language spoken. Forgács believes that
‘the deep connection between the new art and the new technology attests to the
transnationalism of the new culture’.14
Moholy-Nagy soon understood the potential publications had as a form of
artistic statement and ideological dissemination. The visual concept initially
developed in the Book of New Artists would then be expanded to comprise a
collection of books he produced while at the Bauhaus. For those editions,
13 Forgács (2013), p. 153 14 Forgács (2013), p. 160
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Moholy created a layout that allowed images and text to be complementary read
(Fig. 2).
The publications ‘Painting, Photography, Film’, (1925); ‘The New Vision’
(1928); ‘The New Architecture and The Bauhaus’ (1935); ‘Abstract of an Artist’
(1944); and ‘Vision in motion’ (1946) embodied not only a strategy for spreading
ideas and theories, but can be considered artworks themselves, that ‘blurring the
borderline between art and design … celebrated internationalism as the concept
of universal creativity’.15 Art critic Richard Kostelanetz considers Vision in
Motion to be ‘among the masterpieces of conceptual art’, besides being one of
Moholy’s most significant artworks.16
Dada
Among the avant-garde groups that circulated in Berlin, two of them
represented major influences for Moholy-Nagy before he joined the Bauhaus:
Berlin Dada, and constructivism in its international trend.
Putting together pieces from a number of different cultures, alongside the
most varied artistic techniques, Dada had a program that was at the same time
social, political and aesthetic; yet, it was a denial of all that. Within the cultures it
embraced, French, Spanish, Russian and African could be found, just to name a
few. Those merging cultural influences took the form of poetry, theatre, dance,
music, collage, painting, publications, etc. In Moholy’s own words, ‘They
opened up the route for the surprising, embarrassing, and even the “nonsensical.”
15 Ibid., p. 160 16 Engelbrecht, Lloyd C., Moholy-Nagy: Mentor to Modernism (Cincinnati: Flying Trapeze Press, 2009) p.696
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… In the “Cabaret Voltaire,” Zurich (1916), some young emigrants started out
with performances full of bitterness against the “imperialistic” war’.17
Raised by Hugo Ball in the middle of the Great War, in addition to a
transnational approach, Dada had international aspirations from the beginning.
With echoes in the U.S., France, and Germany, it circulated in accordance with
the relocating tendency of the avant-garde’s movements. ‘The word Dada was an
arbitrary yet essential covering term activating the generic, international art
movement as the paradigmatic modernist apparatus of social and aesthetic
rebellion and progress.’18
After the group broke apart and spread, in 1920 the First International
Dada Fair happened in Berlin – Raoul Hausmann, one of Dada’s founders was
living there. The Dada-Messe also exhibited its connection to the Russian
constructivists, with Tatlin’s Monument to the Third international displayed.19
Moreover, works such as John Heartfield and Rudolf Schlichter's Prussian
Archangel raised big polemics and contributed to press articles being
internationally published in Prague, Paris, London, Argentina and the U.S. As a
result, around fifty artworks were scheduled to figure in an exhibition in New
York. 20
The influences Moholy absorbed from the Dadaists went beyond theory;
for example, Hanna Höch’s photomontages were essential for his developments
17 Moholy-Nagy, Laszlo, Vision in Motion (Chicago: Paul Theobald and Company, 1947), p. 311 18 Benson (2013), p. 14 19 It is interesting to think how it could have arrived there since the Russia’s borders were closed then. Ibid., p. 14 20 Wieland Herzfelde and Brigid Doherty October Vol. 105, Dada (Summer, 2003), pp. 93-104 Published by: The MIT Press, p. 94
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in photography, with her work appearing in Painting, Photography, Film.21 The
resulting photomontages and photograms production may also be seen as a way
Moholy found to fit in the industrial age, raising new possibilities through the
artistic use of the machine (Fig. 3).22 These methods would be continuously
explored during all the artist’s life.
Constructivism
In 1922 Moholy exhibited his Nickel Sculpture (1921) (Fig. 4) in
Düsseldorf’s First International Art Exhibition. While the exhibition aimed at
gathering artists from the largest number of nationalities possible, a congress
went on, exposing the too general and maybe misunderstood idea of
internationalism. ‘The exhibition organisers who had assembled [the works] had
assumed that ‘international’ meant regional diversity, a retrospective, even
passive, collection of distinct tendencies.’23 Nevertheless, a more progressive
faction was among the exhaustive selection of artists.
By then, the Berlin Dadas had joined the Russian Constructivists and De
Stijl Dutches to form a new avant-garde front, as Hausmann left the exhibition
screaming they were all cannibals and singing the Internationale.24 Meetings that
went on in places such as Moholy’s apartment brought together names as Hans
Richter, El Lissitsky and Theo Van Doesburg, among others. The manifesto ‘A
Call for Elementarist Art’ was published in De Stijl a year earlier; and within the
21 Moholy-Nagy, Laszlo, Painting, Photography, Film (London: Lund Humphries, 1969), p. 106 22 Rose-Carol Washton Long in James-Chakraborty, Kathleen, Ed., Bauhaus Culture – From Weimar to the Cold War (Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2006), p. 51 23 Benson (2013), p. 16 24 Ibid., p. 17
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meetings, the participating artists agreed to assume a contrary position to the
expressionist individuality and nationalist tendencies seen in Düsseldorf.
After the congress, constructivism’s international identity was already
established, culminating in the Congress of Constructivists and Dadaists (Fig. 5)
in September 1922 – Moholy-Nagy also participated. This dynamic group with
its transnational, collective, technological ideals would also trigger new
methodologies when some of its members got involved with the Bauhaus,
particularly from 1923 on, when Moholy-Nagy was invited by Walter Gropius to
join the school.
The Bauhaus Years
The Bauhaus was founded in 1919 in Weimar. Gropius, its first director,
believed that the school would be able to ‘lead post-war Germany society in a
process of social, economic, and cultural renewal’.25 He idealized merging arts,
crafts and architecture into an all-embracing practice, having invited teachers
from diverse backgrounds to work in partnership with craftsmen in the school’s
workshops.
Like the other avant-gardist fronts, the Bauhaus strived to endure apart
from an ever-growing majority of conservative-nationalist Germans. Gropius
was constantly trying to slip away from government pressures that considered the
school economically insignificant and culturally unfit. Some said the school was
‘cosmopolitan’ and ‘Spartacist’, the worst accusations possible in the eyes of the
25 John V. Maciuka in: James-Chakraborty, Kathleen, Ed., Bauhaus Culture – From Weimar to the Cold War (Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2006) p. 1
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conservative group.26 As an effort to pull through, in 1923 Gropius announced
the Bauhaus’s new directions: ‘Art and Technology – a New Unit’;
correspondingly, Moholy-Nagy was invited to take over the metal workshop,
eventually assuming Johannes Itten’s preliminary course.27 Moholy’s ventures
went in the same direction as Gropius’s, turning him into a key character for the
new policy.
The five years spent as a Bauhaus tutor allowed Moholy to expand the
background gained during the Berlin period. Besides having released the already
mentioned collection of books, Moholy had the possibility to reflect upon art
teaching methodologies, formal and material uses, collective versus individual
artistic practices. Soon he would be trying to transcend the ‘gesamtkunstwerk’
concept by formulating the need of an artistic practice that merged with life
itself: ‘What we need is not the 'Gesamtkunstwerk', alongside and separated from
which life flows by, but a synthesis of all the vital impulses … the all-embracing
Gesamtwerk (life) which abolishes all isolation, in which all individual
accomplishments proceed from a biological necessity and culminate in a
universal necessity.’28
Another important aspect of the Bauhaus’s years, is that in the school
Moholy had access to all its facilities, while being in contact with the
heterogeneous community members. This way, he continued experimenting with
photography and painting but would aggregate other techniques to his
curriculum: he worked with costume and lightning design for theatre in
26 Forgács (2013), p.148 27 Willett, John, The New Sobriety – Art and Politics in the Weimar Period 1917-33 (Hampshire: Thames and Hudson, 1978), p 81-82 28 Moholy-Nagy, László, Painting, Photography, Film (London: Lund Humphries, 1969), p. 17
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partnership with Oskar Schlemmer and Erwin Piscator, curated exhibitions, and
designed posters.
Hattula Moholy-Nagy believes that the Bauhaus years were the ones that
determined Moholy’s transnationalism, as people and their human potential
became more important to him.29 But with the Nazi Party nearing and pressures
on Gropius getting stronger, both him and Moholy would resign in 1928. The
Nazis shot down the school five years later.
Berlin, Amsterdam, London and the U.S.
After leaving Dessau in 1928, Moholy kept producing as an artist, but his
financial income came mainly from the works he did as a freelance designer. As
Terence Senter states, those years ‘fully tested his mission and integrity’.30
Nevertheless, he took the opportunities he had to experiment with new
techniques – namely colour photography and film.
Initially, he moved back to Berlin where he lived from 1928 to 1934, and
opened a design studio. An important accomplishment at that time was Light
Prop for an Electric Stage (fig. 5), a project initiated in 1922. The piece unfolded
to be more than a kinetic sculpture, having become a film as well as exhibited as
an installation in 1930, in Paris. Having the chance to go to France in 1929,
Moholy also produced his first short film, Marseille Vieille Port and got
acquainted with artists from Abstraction-Création.
29 Hattula Moholy-Nagy (2006), pp.113-114 30 Terence A. Senter in: Albers and Moholy-Nagy: From the Bauhaus to the New World (exhibition catalogue, Tate Modern, London, 9 March – 4 June 2006) ed. Tate Publishing (London: 2006), p. 85
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He then lived in Amsterdam for another year, where he had a solo show
in the Stedelijk Museum, and gave a series of talks. Furthermore, he became the
artistic director of the International Textiles magazine, a work that also gave him
the chance to investigate colour photography’s artistic possibilities. Though for
some time he still kept his Berliner office, arguably Moholy’s definitive depart
from Germany was Goebbel’s Chamber of Culture summoning to present his
paintings personally for censorship. Though he managed not to attend, his works
were included in the 1937 wretched Degenerate Art Exhibition.
By the end of 1935 Moholy was established in London, working in
numerous advertising jobs. Gropius was also living there and they kept a close
relationship, often discussing the possibility of opening an English Bauhaus
branch. This never happened, since Moholy encountered harsh criticism and
incomprehensiveness among the British artistic, industrial and commercial
circles – he considered Englishmen lacking the capacity to understand modern
thinking.31 Yet, his lectures and talks were usually successful even if they raised
polemics, and his most important contributions in the English period were
arguably those education-related such as the supporting of the new village
colleges.
When Moholy moved to the U.S. in 1937, his hopes were renewed with
the prospection of a new life, away from what he considered a desperate situation,
in an Europe that once more prepared for war.32 However, things did not go as
planned, and the New Bauhaus he had been called to direct closed one year after
its opening, due to the II World War imminent outburst. The following years he
31 Senter (2006), p. 87-91 32 Ibid., p. 90
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endeavoured to maintain Chicago’s School of Design, which he founded with his
own earnings; the school still exists, and now is called Institution of Design.
Despite the fact that in 1935 Moholy was diagnosed with leukaemia, he kept his
position as the school’s director and remained painting and photographing, until
his death in 1946.
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Conclusion
In sum, addressing László Moholy-Nagy’s trajectory through
transnational scope enables an understanding of his detachment from nation-
related issues. He was connected to some of the main avant-garde movements
developing a versatile oeuvre, which was reshaped every time he learned about
new possibilities, being especially fond of those enabled by new technologies.
Reckoning the importance of collective practices, Moholy went beyond his
artistic production to become an eminent educator. He acknowledged the
‘gesamtkunstwerk’ as the art that is one with life. The dynamism intrinsic to his
character led him to singularly contribute with artistic photography, publication
design and education in different countries and circles.
Moholy avoided political associations, but was keen to engage with
groups of people whenever he saw they shared his vision. That does not mean he
was alienated from the political environment he dwelled, but rather that he chose
art and education as tools for transforming society. Even if he was never able to
see his utopic longings come true, Moholy’s optimistic nature made him hold on
to his ideals. He finishes his last book, ‘Vision in Motion’, with the following
statement about his project for an international cultural working assembly:
‘In accepting the responsibility of initiative and stimulus, it could serve
as the intellectual trustee of a new age in finding a new unity of purpose … It
could write a new charter of human life, culminating in the right to and the
capacity of self expression (the best bond for social coherence) without
censorship or economic pressure.
It could translate Utopia into action.’33
33 László Moholy-Nagy (1947), p. 361
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Illustrations
Figure I
László Moholy-Nagy and Lajos Kassák, Buch Neuer Künstler [Book of New Artists], Book spread (front and back cover), 1922
Figure II
László Moholy-Nagy, Malerei, Photographie, Film, Book spread, 1925.
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Figure III
László Moholy-Nagy, Untitled, photogram, 1943, size and collection unknown
Figure IV
László Moholy-Nagy, Nickel Sculpture, 1921, Nickel plated iron welded, 33,6 x 17,5 x 23,8 cm, New York, The Museum of Modern Art
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Figure IV
Congress of Constructivists and Dadaists, 1922, Moholy Nagy is in the last row, the third from right to left. Also in the picture are van Doesburg, El Lissitzki, Hans Richter. Photographer Unknown
Figure V
László Moholy-Nagy, Light Prop for an Electric Stage, 1930, Metal and plastic, electric motor, 151 x 70 x 70 cm, Cambridge (MA) Busch Resinger Museum