Lyonel Feininger

I have refered to this book a lot over the years. If you don't like the man's work there is a lot to learn from Feiningers letters. For one Feininger, Klee and Kandinsky saw a lot of each other. They feared the technological direction of Moholy Nagy. Although the above three developed a systemized visual curricula . They believed in feeling in art! Moholy was interested in a stricter approach. Nagy didn't much care for poetics. I once discussed this with the publisher of Vision in Motion by Nagy , she said that , oh!! they were all jealous of Moholy as he was so versatile! The book includes Lyonel's discussion of his work ,his rejection for membership in the Abstract Artist's Association.Essays by his son and Alfred Barr.Like the other documentary monographs in modern art this book helps the reader learn of the development of American Art. The Stuart Davis book in this series is also valuable.