The New Vision by László Moholy-Nagy

Author:László Moholy-Nagy
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 9780486138411
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2012-10-11T04:00:00+00:00

Thus a similar quest for expression by subduing or lightening the material is to be found

in sculpture: from mass to motion;

in painting: from colored pigment to light (play of colored light);

in music: from instrumental tones to spheric tones (ether wave music);

in poetry: from individual thoughts to sound relationships;

in architecture: from restricted closed space to free fluctuation of forces.

The history of kinetic sculpture

The history of kinetic sculpture begins far back in the ancient ages, with the very first clockwork automata. As a step toward kinetic sculpture in our own time one may instance certain toys, advertising signs, fountains, fireworks (Figs. 150-Figs. 161) and the like. These often contain most interesting suggestions for experiment. Recently the futurists have come forward as conscious propagandists of the dynamic as a principle of artistic creation. Boccioni presented the first “dynamic” pieces of sculpture in his book “Pittura, scultura futurista (dinamismo plastico)”. In 1912 he wrote:

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