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The Struggle For Realized At Bauhaus' Ideal

Posted on:2013-02-21Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:M Y YaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:1115330374451220Subject:Art of Design
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School of Design Bauhaus who are created the new thoughts of modern design education, Moholy-Nagy is a main teacher of bauhaus who used important with form of bauhaus education system. This thesis centers on Moholy-Nagy's life and career, so that can be found a whole understand about Moholy-Nagy's theory and practice; Moholy-Nagy's education idea mainly come from his art practice at first, he want through his work like abstract painting and photograph and sculptures to impact society; the basic thought of Moholy-Nagy is reason, at bauhaus teaching,he insisted about thinking of constructive and principle of design of objective reason in training students, so this attitude and method is influenced clearly in students, some student's works in workshop had been chose for mass production by company, so that the bauhaus's design style of reason begin forming; Moholy-Nagy constructed the new bauhaus is broaden out with bauhaus's idea in Chicago, in pedagogy he insisted "unity of art with sciences and technology", and he advocated "General Education" in art education with intent to training "the whole man"; Moholy-Nagy happened conflict strongly with Americans business design thought, he insisted design principle of modernism, and educated his students concerned with responsibility at society, and advocated "design for life", and he tried to redefine design as a humanistic discipline rather than a vocational skill, so he thing that "designing is not a profession, but that it is an attitude which everyone should have."In the final essay, with research base on through Moholy-Nagy's arts practice and education idea, I think that Moholy-Nagy is the biggest composite of bauhaus idea, even though he had many idealism and utopian's dream, but this transcend can also included reason,his education idea was beyond the limit range of arts and design deucation itself,but pointed to the high level of social responsibility.Moholy-Nagy's education idea of design which insisted that design education was not only training process of design thinking and method,but also character building of design with higher social ideal, his foresight and deep thoughts has more value constantly in design education for future society, and the spirit of transcend through Moholy-Nagy's life and career which can useful and meaningful forever for development of design education culture.
Keywords/Search Tags:Moholy-Nagy, Bauhaus, spirit of reason, general education, "thewhole man" training, composite, transcend
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