The Struggle for Utopia: Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy, 1917-1946
By Victor Margolin.
Description
Following World War I, a new artistic-social avant-garde emerged with the ambition to engage the artist in the building of social life. Through close readings of the works of Alexander Rodchenko, El Lissitzky, and László Moholy-Nagy whose careers covered a broad range of artistic practices and political situations, Victor Margolin examines the way these three artists negotiated the changing relations between their social ideals and the political realities they confronted. Focusing on the difficult relationship between art and social change, Margolin brings important new insigh...
ISBN(s)
0226505154, 9780226505152
