Format:
xvi, 486 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
ISBN:
9780262039864
Content:
Gyorgy Kepes (1906–2001) was the last disciple of Bauhaus modernism, an acolyte of László 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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Language:
English
Subjects:
Art History
Keywords:
Kepes, Gyorgy 1906-2001
;
Bauhaus
;
Kepes, Gyorgy 1906-2001
;
Bauhaus
;
Kepes, Gyorgy
