Art, Technology & Nature / [presented by] Gyorgy Kepes.

Format:

Sound recording

Contributor:

Kepes, Gyorgy, 1906-2001, narrator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Aesthetics.

Architecture.

Architecture, Modern--20th century.

Architecture, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 audio file (28 minutes)).

Other Title:

Art technology and nature

Place of Publication:

London, England: Pidgeon Digital, 1985.

Summary:

The artist Gyorgy Kepes studied in his native Hungary and worked in Austria, Germany and England before moving to America in the early 1950s. There he ran courses in advertising design for the Art Directors' Club in Chicago and was, for six years, Head of the Department of Light and Colour at the Illinois Institute of Technology School of Design. He subsequently taught in various colleges and headed for many years the Centre for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Kepes has divided his time between painting, teaching and experimenting with motion pictures and graphic design, consistently believing in an art that combines science and aesthetics. The ideas contained in his book "Language Of Vision", published in 1961, became the content of the Basic Design courses now included in art school curricula. He had reached his eighties by the time of this talk, but his interest in the possibilities of light, colour, movement and technology continued. In his talk, he shares his ideas about the relationship between the visual environment and the artist's vision, and shows beautiful examples of kinetic art, sometimes on a vast scale.

Contents:

Gyorgy Kepes, 1984

Patmos, Greece

Los Angeles, Aerial View

Manhattan, Aerial View

House On A Greek Island

Identification For Satellite City, Mexico, By Pedro Ramírez Vazquez & Eduardo Terrazzas

Light Tower By Boyd Mefferd

Programmed Light Symbol For Radio Shack, Boston, 1950

Programmed Light Mural For KLM, New York, 1959

Experiment With Light

Kinetic Light Form, With Gramophone & Bent Wire

Illuminated Perforated Light Boxes Shown At Smithsonian Museum, Washington

Model For Light Wall In Boston Harbour, 1976

Tower Of Nichrome Wires Shown At Boston Science Museum

Photo-Elastic Walks, 30 Feet & 26 Feet

Flame Orchard

Cybernetic Sculpture Loaned By Wen-Ying Tsai

Schlieren Photo Of Airplane Blade

Air View Of River Bed In North Africa

Computer Programmed Image Of Sun Flares

Image Of Laser Form, At Documenta Exhibition, Kassel

Trees & Power Lines, The Cascades, Seattle.

Notes:

Title from publisher's website (viewed April 26, 2021).

Access Restriction:

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