"Transparency and light, structure and substance": Enamel paints in László Moholy-Nagy's Z VII (1926)

Journal of the American Institute for Conservation

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 236-245

  Tsai, Joyce ^a   Krueger, Jay ^b   Maines, Christopher ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART   (United States)

Author keywords

Enamel paints; Moholy Nagy; Paint analysis; Z VII; Z VIII

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893058604     PISSN: 01971360     EISSN: 19452330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1945233013Y.0000000017     Document Type: Conference Paper

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