Books by Eik Kahng
The Paintings of Moholy-Nagy: The Shape of Things to Come
by Joyce Tsai, James Merle Thomas, Friederike Waentig, Larry J. Feinberg, Eik Kahng
László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946) became notorious for the declarations he made about the end of painting, encouraging artists to exchange brush, pigment, and canvas for camera, film, and searchlight. Even as he made these radical claims, he painted throughout his career. The practice of painting enabled Moholy-Nagy to imagine generative relationships between art and technology, and to describe the shape that future possibilities might take. Joyce Tsai illuminates the evolution of painting’s role for Moholy-Nagy through key periods in his career: at the German Bauhaus in the 1920s, in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom in the early 1930s, and as director of the New Bauhaus in Chicago in the last decade of his life. The book also includes an introduction to the history, qualities, and significance of plastic materials that Moholy-Nagy used over the course of his career, and an essay on how his project of shaping habitable space in his art and writing resonated with artists and industrial designers in the 1960s and 1970s.
Distributed for the Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Exhibition Schedule:
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
(07/05/15–09/27/15)
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David Wiesner and the Art of Wordless Storytelling
by David Wiesner, Katherine Roeder, Eik Kahng, Ellen Keiter
The first publication to show the creative process of David Wiesner, one of the world's most acclaimed children's book illustrators
A master of storytelling through pictures and three-time winner of the Caldecott Medal, David Wiesner (b. 1956) is one of the most highly acclaimed book illustrators in the world. This handsome volume is the first to examine his creative process and his many sources of inspiration. The book features dozens of lavish color plates, from early work to the exquisitely wrought watercolors that are the basis of his best-known books, along with pages excerpted from his forthcoming first graphic novel, Fish Girl. Also included are works by some of the artists most influential to Wiesner, including Marvel comic book legends, Surrealist and avant-garde masters, and mid-20th-century graphic artists. While illustration has often been marginalized in the world of fine art, the vibrant interplay among paintings, prints, comic books, graphic novels, iconic 20th-century films, and cartoons in Wiesner’s art gives evidence to the complexity of the American tradition of picture book illustration.
Distributed for the Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Exhibition Schedule:
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
(01/29/17–05/14/17)
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Amherst, MA
(06/18/17–11/05/17)
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