Extract from Foreword to the third English edition:

“ […] The New Vision was written in the years 1925-28, and published in this country (America) in 1930 and 1938.

[…] Since 1938, when “the new vision” was last published, great changes have taken place. The Institute of Design, Chicago, which continued the Bauhaus education and adapted it to the American scene, is now six years old. It has proved its vitality by attracting a large number of students to its regular day classes as well as to evening classes and the summer sessions, and by sending its graduates to important positions.

[…] The interest in the creative educational approach of the Institute is constantly growing […]. With their help and that of other responsible citizens I hope that in a not too distant future we shall be able to build a new campus. There the ideas of the Institute can be realized with greater clarity crystalizing a new creative education that strives to integrate the best that mankind can offer to youth.

As an appendix, this edition contains the brief essay, never hitherto published, entitled “Abstract of an Artist.” It is an attempt to picture the feelings, thoughts and effort upon which my artistic development has been based.”

- L.M.-N. Chicago, 1945.

Extract from Foreword to the second English edition:


“The New Vision was written to inform laymen and artists about the basic element of the Bauhaus education: the merging of theory and practice in design.

[…]

This book contains an abstract our work (the Bauhaus) in the Bauhaus preliminary course, which naturally develops from day to day in practice.

The work of the Bauhaus would be too limited if this preliminary course served only Bauhaus students; they, because of constant contact with instructor, and with practical workshop experience, are least in need of its record in book form. More important - one might say the essential condition - for the success of the Bauhaus idea is the education of our contemporaries outside the Institute. It is the public which must come to understand and to aid in furthering the work of the designers, if their creativeness is to yield the best results for the community. To prepare this understanding is the main task of The New Vision. It is my hope that it will stimulate those who are interested in art, research, design and education.”

- L.N.-N. 1938.