Photoplastic. The Transformation/Anxiety Dream, 1925, Breuer’s figure is repeated, but altered by the addition of a ball and upside-down eyes from other faces (one pair belonging to the silent film star Mae Murray). Pencil lines around the figures indicate cropping for this print, in which the three Breuers are enlarged and the white space around them is eliminated. The disturbing eyes in this version perhaps gave rise to the ambiguous alternate title Anxiety Dream. Ultimately, Moholy-Nagy adapted the series to advertise the Schocken Department Store in Nuremberg. The legacy of Hungarian artist Laszlo Moholy-Nagy is among the most cherished in the lineage of photographic art, and he can be defined as a visionary whose radical experiments with photography entirely re-imagined the possibilities for the medium. Working in the early 20th century when photography was not considered a form of high art, Moholy-Nagy actively sought to break down boundaries and find new languages of photographic discourse. In doing so, he left behind an oeuvre of visual ideas that have provided artistic license to a century’s worth of photographers to experiment boldly beyond the conventional definitions of what photography is expected to be. Edition: 1 of 1

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The legacy of Hungarian artist Laszlo Moholy-Nagy is among the most cherished in the lineage of photographic art, and he can be defined as a visionary whose radical experiments with photography entirely re-imagined the possibilities for the medium. Working in the early 20th century when photography was not considered a form of high art, Moholy-Nagy actively sought to break down boundaries and find new languages of photographic discourse. In doing so, he left behind an oeuvre of visual ideas that have provided artistic license to a century’s worth of photographers to experiment boldly beyond the conventional definitions of what photography is expected to be.

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Artist
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Blockchain
Ethereum
Token standard
ERC-721
Contract address
0xfb...2608
Token
13
Artist
László Moholy-Nagy
Book
Eliel, Carol S., Karole Vail, and Matthew S. Witkovsky, eds. Moholy-Nagy: Future Present, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2016), p. 99, fig. 124.
Copyright
© László Moholy-Nagy Estate 2022 All Rights Reserved
Edition
1 of 1
Exhibition history
"Photographic Masterworks: Recent Acquisitions from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 23–March 4, 1990.
File Size
4000 × 3111 px (6.1 MB)
License
© László Moholy-Nagy Estate
Medium
Non-Fungible Token
Museum Collection
Getty
Number of characters
3
Property
One man in three versions
Year
1925
Activity
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