This study addresses the question of how to write about the life and work of an artist after the `death of the author' theorized in poststructuralism. I know of no other study that attempts to do with any figure what Kaplan has done with Moholy. It is a work of extraordinary originality and importance. A tour de force. -Gregory Ulmer, ... Read moreauthor of Applied Grammatology and Heuretics A significant contribution to the emergent field of `New' Art History and Criticism. This study of signature and its effects generates a new approach to biography, by redefining it not as a compilation of historical details or facts, but rather as a system of production/reproduction, a signifying economy whose terms challenge the borders of literature and the visual arts. -Dalia Judovitz, author of Dialectic and Narrative Show Less