| Title |
A Study on the “allgemeine Elementenlehre” of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy |
| Keywords |
Element theory ; Design ; Empiriocriticism ; Constructivism |
| Abstract |
This study is purposed to explicate the idea of ‘the general design’ for the construction of space of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy who has stood against the traditional value system and made an attempt to create a new space-form language. On the basis of unification of perception and reality Moholy-Nagy intended to regenerate the essential aspects of life through an art by bestowing art with an aesthetic foundation and also expanding the art world into the living area. ‘The Allgemeine Elementenlehre(the general theory of elements)’ of Moholy-Nagy that is distanced from the visual perception as the dominant sense which is based on the principle of representation and imitation, and emphasized on the complicated relationship between the various senses including the tactile sense, offers a pedagogical basis for the space design that is indispensable for the plastic thinking and practice. At the same time it indicates an access route to the primary nature through the spatial construction of the prime elements of nature and manTo explicate his idea toward the general theory of design of space, it will be tried first of all to clarify the core points of the empirio-criticism and the constructivism as the theoretical backgrounds of Moholy-Nagy. And then on the basis of these theoretical backgrounds will be analyzed the system and the contents of ‘the allgemeine Elementenlehre’ as the general space design theory and also the general space design pedagogy. |