A History of Graphic Design
...s chapter feeling that everything was about to change and would never go back. This is how Meggs actually writes the whole chapter. He shows how all these new technological advances change people’s lives and the way they are able to explore art. For instance I find it funny that Laszio Moholy-Nagy was not too thrilled with the thought of all this technology, yet he became very famous for his photography. Moholy-Nagy was able to explore new ideas such as his photograms. A camera was not needed in order to create a photogram. They were simply a patterned interplay of light and dark on a sheet of light sensitive paper. However, this is not the only way that technology influenced Moholy-Nagy’s art, nor his he the only artist that technology helped out. Meggs presents an entire chapter expressing how important this technology was to the development of art, and how far new ideas in design could be pushed. New ideas were also being pushed in Wolfe’s book From Bauhaus to Our House, but he did not seem as enthusiastic about it as Meggs did. Wolfe describes the change in architectural style and how much he despises it. He considers this century the “American century”. The one in which America becomes very rich and surpasses every other nation. He mocks the technology that has been invented, and feels that Americans are fools in the way that they use it. “This has been America’s period of full-blooded, go-to-hell, belly-rubbing, wahoo-yahoo youthful rampage—and what architecture has she to show for it? An architecture whose tenets prohibit every manifestation of exuberance, power, empire, grandeur, or even high spirits and playfulness, as the height of bad taste.” He mocked America by saying that the every apartment was the same. The New York Times Magazine ran a picture of a different apartment every week and he referred to them as “the apartment”. Wolfe mocks every aspect of “new” or “modern” architecture, and doesn’t really like the fact that there is so much new technology. Now when you think back to what Meggs has shown us, it is easier to understand that this technology was ...