Movements / Bauhaus from LEFT COAST BOOKS

New York: Aperture, 1982. Cloth, 76 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Photographs by students and teachers of the Institute of Design. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket, with a faded spine, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and the New Bauhaus. CONTENTS: A Visionary Founder: Laszlo Moholy-Nagy; The New… Read more about this item

Munchen; Munich: Droemersche Verlagsanstalt Th. Knaur Nachf, 1958. Cloth, 311 pages, illustrations (some colour); 22 cm. Text in German; translated from the original French. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Expected browning. Dust jacket, worn at extremities, protected in a mylar cover. . 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo.

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999. Cloth, xx, 283 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Revised edition of Bauhaus-Architektur: die Rezeption in Amerika, 1919-1936. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "After the Bauhaus's closing in 1933, many of its protagonists moved to the United States, where their acceptance had to be cultivated. In this book Margret Kentgens-Craig shows that… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO: Johnson Books, 2005. xxvi, 272 pages, illustrations (some colour); 23 cm. Co-published with the Denver Art Museum. Tight, clean copy. Spine bumped at the crown. Another copy available. "Chanzit explores Herbert Bayer's stunning artistic legacy, which includes painting, photography, typography, sculpture, architecture, exhibition design, and graphic design. Arriving in the U.S. in the late 1930s, German artist Herbert… Read more about this item

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1965. 112 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. MIT 21. Good+. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Missing blank flyleaf. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. "One of the most important books on the modern movement in architecture, The New Architecture and the Bauhaus poses some of the fundamental problems presented by the relations of art and industry… Read more about this item

New York and Washington D.C.: Praeger Publishers, 1974. Cloth, 264 pages, illustrations (some colour); 23 cm. Documentary Monographs In Modern Art Series. Good+. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Moderate shelfwear to boards, age toning. A solid copy, lacking the DJ. . 1st. Hardcover. Good/No DJ. 8vo.

New York: Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, 1966. [48] pages, illustrations (some colour); 23 cm. Errata slip laid in. Exhibition held at the Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, April to May 1966. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Collectible.

Malibu, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1995. 127 pages, illustrations; 20 cm. Tight, clean copy. "Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) was a painter, sculptor, filmmaker, writer, graphic and stage designer, teacher, and photographer. Working in his native Hungary as well as in Germany, Holland, England, and the United States, Moholy-Nagy constantly experimented in these various fields, leaving a remarkable legacy of innovation."… Read more about this item

New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1975. 224 pages, illustrations; 26 cm. First published 1938. Firm binding, clean text. Previous owner's name/flyleaf, otherwise unmarked. Age toning. Stated First paperback edition. CONTENTS: Preface, by Alfred H. Barr, Jr.; The background of the Bauhaus, by Alexander Dorner; Walter Gropius: biographical note; Weimar Bauhaus 1919-1925; The theory and organization of the Bauhaus, by… Read more about this item

San Francisco, CA: Stephen Wirtz Gallery, 1978. [24] pages, illustrations; 21 x 23 cm. Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, January 3 to February 4, 1978. A very good copy with a previous owner's blind stamp, otherwise unmarked.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. Oblong.

Chicago: Stephen Daiter Photography, 1994. 67 pages, illustrations; 27 cm. Published on the occasion of the Exhibition "Light and Vision: Photography at the School of Design in Chicago: 1937-52" at the Chicago Photographic Print Fair, September 23 to 25, 1994, The Chicago Cultural Center, and on the occasion of the Exhibition "The New Bauhaus: Graphic/Photographic Works by Moholy-Nagy and his… Read more about this item

Cologne: Benedikt Taschen, 1994. 199 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Richly illustrated with colour plates. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "In 1910 Wassily Kandinsky made art history by painting the first wholly non-representational picture. This monograph traces the evolution of non-representational art and describes the achievement of one… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Feber, 1966. 55 pages, illustrations; 19 cm. Text in German/Text in Deutsch. Good+. Firm binding, clean text. Gift inscription/flyleaf, otherwise unmarked.. Paperback. Good. 8vo.

Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1969. 64 pages, illustrations (some colour), portrait; 26 cm. Edition of 5000 copies. An exhibition organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. in cooperation with the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the University Art Museum at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Seattle Art Museum. Firm binding, clean… Read more about this item

London: Thames and Hudson, 1987. 446 pages, illustrations (some colour); 27 cm. Firm binding, gently creased spine. Clean inside copy. First paperback edition. "Moholy-Nagy . . . was the dominant theoretician of the Bauhaus during its most prosperous era; his Constructivist/Suprematist paintings are among the finest achievements in European art of the twenties; he was a pioneer in kinetic sculpture;… Read more about this item

Frankfurt am Main: Syndikat, 1981. Cloth, 218 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Text in German/Text Deutsch. SEHR GUT+. Mit Schutzumschlag. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover.. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo.

London and New York: Thames & Hudson; World of Art Ser., 1984. 216 pages, illustrations (some colour); 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. "The way our environment looks, the appearance of everything from housing estates to newspapers, is partly the result of a school of art and design founded in Germany in 1919 and closed… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO: Johnson Books, 2005. xxvi, 272 pages, illustrations (some colour); 23 cm. Co-published with the Denver Art Museum. Tight, clean copy. "Chanzit explores Herbert Bayer's stunning artistic legacy, which includes painting, photography, typography, sculpture, architecture, exhibition design, and graphic design. Arriving in the U.S. in the late 1930s, German artist Herbert Bayer brought his understanding of Bauhaus principles to… Read more about this item

New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1947. 39 pages, illustrations, portraits; 26 cm. Cover title: Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Memorial. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation presents a survey of the artist's paintings and plastics at the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, New York City, May 15th to July 10th, 1947. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light soiling & edgewear to wraps, age toning..… Read more about this item

Durham, NC: Duke University Press Books, 1995. xi, 232 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. "Marking the centenary of the birth of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946), this book offers a new approach to the Bauhaus artist and theorist's multifaceted life and work - an approach that redefines the very idea of biographical writing. In Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Louis Kaplan applies the… Read more about this item