Moholy's Edit: CIAM 1933: The Avant-Garde at Sea - Softcover

Chris Blencowe; Judith Levine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3037785667 ISBN 13: 9783037785669

Publisher: Lars Muller Publishers, 2018

Synopsis

The book concerns the four-day cruise to the Aegean islands made by the "inner circle" of the International Congresses of Modern Architecture (CIAM) and their friends during the 4th congress in August 1933. Structured around that sequence of Moholy-Nagy's film Architects' Congress dealing with the cruise, the book sheds light on this legendary event in the history of the European architectural and artistic avant-garde. In addition the colourful and ironic six-page letter Moholy-Nagy wrote to his wife Sibyl describing the "motley crew" and the barely-seaworthy "yacht" that brought them close to the brink of disaster, allows exclusive insights. This document is being published for the very first time. Together with a close study of Le Corbusier's sketches and notes in his carnet B5, all of these documents (and even more) compiled by the authors with utmost care reveal the preoccupations of the key personae including Sigfried Giedion, Fernand Léger, Amédée Ozenfant, Cornel van Eesteren, Otto Neurath and Le Corbusier himself, enabling to reconstruct their epiphanies, discussions and estrangements at this critical moment in history. They give away a lot about the vital contribution to 20th century culture made by members of the Greek artistic community in Paris, such as Christian Zervos, publisher of Cahiers d'Art; Tériade, editor of the surrealist review Minotaure and publisher of Picasso; Michael Tombros, sculptor and publisher of 20th Century; and the painter Ghika.

About this edition

• Publisher: Lars Muller Publishers
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 3037785667
• ISBN 13: 9783037785669
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200