Art in the First Screen Age

László Moholy-Nagy and the Affordances of Surfaces, Canvases, and Scrims

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4070901
AutoresNoam M Elcott (autor correspondente)
Ano2024
Volume51
Fascículo1
Páginas33-76
Data de publicação2024-02-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoNew German Critique (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0094-033X • E-ISSN: 1558-1462
EditoraDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/0094033x-10926453
OpenAlexW4392787707
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas21

Unlike English or French, early twentieth-century German did not adopt a single term for "screen." Instead, a range of terms-and practices-proliferated. This essay explores three terms and practices developed especially within avant-garde circles: Fläche (surface), Leinwand (canvas), and Schirm (scrim). Fläche was championed as material and real; Leinwand was dismissed as immaterial and illusionistic. Schirm, however, challenged these oppositions. Rather than succumb to the traditional avant-garde choice between material reality and immaterial illusion, László Moholy-Nagy advanced a third option: the immaterial reality of Schirme, that is, phantasmagoric presences in our real time and real space

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