The New Vision: fundamentals of design--painting, sculpture, architecture

Revised and expanded edition of Laszlo Moholoy Nagy’s seminal The New Vision, published in 1938 by W.W. Norton & Company. First edition thus, following the initial American edition published in 1930/32 by Warren & Brewer. No. 1 in the New Bauhaus series co-edited by Moholy and Walter Gropius. Book design and typography by Moholy. The Norton edition incorporates student work from Moholy’s first year helming Chicago’s New Bauhaus, so that in dialogue with works by modern masters such as Oskar Schlemmer, Pablo Picasso, Constantin Brancusi, Piet Mondrian, Naum Gabo, Hans Arp, and Moholy, and alongside early Bauhaus student work, we see design experiments by R.Koppe, Nathan Lerner, Grace Seelig, Gretchen Schoniger, Mizutani, and Wallace Kammen—the first fruits of Moholoy’s pedagogy transplanted to American soil. 4to, 207 pages, hardcover with photographic dust jacket, 221 b/w photographs and illustrations. Oatmeal cloth with blue-stamped lettering. With a small blue label inside rear cover from Manhattan’s fabled Gotham Book Mart. Light glue-burn to pastedowns. Light rubbing and soiling to dj, clipped at four corners, but not price-clipped. Considerable bumping and chipping to edges, with open tears along top edge, and additional at spine tail and bottom corner. There is a triangular loss at the top right of front cover, measured 2”x3”. Minor foxing to rear cover, with a pen mark across. The book itself is remarkably well-preserved. Highly scarce thus, and as collectible a copy of this foundational text as can likely be found.