George Wittenborn's copy
The New Vision, 1928, Fourth Revised Edition 1946/ and Abstract of an Artist by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy.
New York: George Wittenborn, Inc, 1961.
Price: $250.00
About the item
Advance copy of the 1961 printing (using text of the 1946 revised and expanded edition) [issued as part of the series, The Documents of Modern Art]; publisher's pre-publication copy, "Sample: Sent for Approval" for in-house use [with printer's label, dated '8/30/61,' stating thus (on front cover)]. 92 pp. 4to. George Wittenborn's copy. Unprinted white wrappers with publisher's sample label taped down on the cover, wraps are unevenly toned and lightly dust soiled, else a very good copy, with the text and illustrations fresh and clean.
Item #346453
This advance copy of the 1961 edition, a unique 'Sample' copy, was provided by a printer for in-house use of the publisher, and was meant for George Wittenborn. Wittenborn was a notable bookseller who started The Documents of Modern Art in 1937, along with his friend and business partner, Heinz Schultz. Wittenborn and Schultz collaborated with Robert Motherwell, who served as general editor, and Bernard Karpel, Librarian at The Museum of Modern Art, who served as documentary editor and compiled many of the series' bibliographies. The groundbreaking series specialized in making available in English major European texts by modern artists and about modern art.
This is a later, republishing of the Laszlo Moholy-Nagy issue, originally released in 1928, and revised in 1947. Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (b.1895 - d.1946), a Hungarian photographer and artist, was a professor in the Bauhaus school; he lived briefly in London, with Walter Gropius (who wrote the preface) in 1935.
