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Avant-garde Art and Moholy-Nagy’s Media Aesthetics

Park Sangwoo 1

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This paper studies the sense of media in the works of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, a key fi gure in the art history of avant-garde. By doing so, it aims to reveal the relationship between old media and new media. Moholy-Nagy is known for his work in traditional media such as sculpture and painting, but also in new media such as photography and fi lm, as well as typography, design, advertising. But the most original contributions of Moholy-Nagy in art history are his experimentation in light art, kinetic art, experimental film, installations. He stresses on all of these art practices and art education by which he tries to cultivate the new man. For Moholy-Nagy this man means the whole man who can prepare for the complex situation of the future society. His media aesthetics are comprised of three elements which are machine, light, dynamism. Moholy-Nagy tries to break with the past, old media esthetics which are the hand, pigment, static. Moholy Nagy takes interest in such new media because he understood by the early 1920s that the reproducibility of technically based media such as photography and fi lm, the proliferation of image through mass media, and an increasingly urbanized world have placed us into a fundamentally new situation. The Futurists wrote of simultaneity, the parallel stimulation of our senses from multiple sources. Moholy-Nagy felt that people needed guidance to cope with this simultaneous environment. At the heart of his project was teaching and education by which he tries to make a new kind of man, a new kind of society.

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