Gyorgy Kepes : undreaming the Bauhaus / John R. Blakinger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blakinger, John R., author.

Contributor:

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kepes, Gyorgy, 1906-2001.

Criticism and interpretation.

Kepes, Gyorgy, 1906-2001--Criticism and interpretation.

Kepes, Gyorgy.

Art and science.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xvi, 486 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, [2019]

Summary:

Gyorgy Kepes (1906-2001) was the last disciple of Bauhaus modernism, an acolyte of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and a self-styled revolutionary artist. But by midcentury, transplanted to America, Kepes found he was trapped in the military-industrial-aesthetic complex. In this first book-length study of Kepes, John Blakinger argues that Kepes, by opening the research laboratory to the arts, established a new paradigm for creative practice: the artist as technocrat. First at Chicago's New Bauhaus and then for many years at MIT, Kepes pioneered interdisciplinary collaboration between the arts and sciences-what he termed "interthinking" and "interseeing." Kepes and his colleagues-ranging from metallurgists to mathematicians-became part of an important but little-explored constellation: the Cold War avant-garde.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Blakinger, John R. Gyorgy Kepes.

ISBN:

9780262039864

0262039869

OCLC:

1048660615