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Now available: Lloyd C. Engelbrecht, Moholy-Nagy: Mentor to Modernism (Cincinnati: Flying Trapeze Press, 2009), ISBN: 978-0-615-32366-4.

This is the first attempt at a comprehensive, fully documented biography of artist, designer, music theorist, educator and writer László Moholy-Nagy, whom Engelbrecht argues is the most rounded creative figure of the 20th century.  It is in two volumes, plus a DVD.  Its 841 pages include a chronological index covering 20 pages and a general index covering 73 pages.  Illustrations, many in color, appear in the text and on the accompanying DVD.  

Moholy-Nagy: Mentor to Modernism is printed on acid-free paper with library-friendly generous margins.  It is a limited edition of 300 copies, each signed and numbered by the author.

The price to libraries in the United States, Canada and Mexico is $ 200.00 (a twenty per-cent discount), with free shipping.  The cost for libraries in other countries is $ 200.00 plus $ 25.00 shipping, a total of $ 225.00.  Send library orders to Omar A. Fouad, President, The Flying Trapeze Press, P.O. Box 19695, Cincinnati, Ohio 45219-0695, or to him at [log in to unmask].

For more information about the book and its author, go to www.flyingtrapezepress.com.


Thank you,

 

Jennifer Pollock

Head of the Robert A. Deshon and Karl J. Schlachter Library

for Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning

University of Cincinnati/College of DAAP

5480 Aronoff Center for Design and Art

Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0016

513-556-1319

http://www.libraries.uc.edu/libraries/daap/