UID:
kobvindex_INT0003853
Format:
1 electronic resource ([v], 230 pages)
,
richly illustrated (black and white)
Edition:
1st printing
ISBN:
No
Series Statement:
Vision + value series ; [06]
Content:
"Between 1965 and 1966, New York book publisher George Braziller published a six volume series under the title Vision + Value, edited by renowned artist, designer and M.I.T. professor, Gyorgy Kepes. The aim of the series, '...to stimulate the circulation of ideas, to find channels of communication that interconnect various disciplines and offer us a sense of structure in our 20th century world...,' encouraged interdisciplinary cooperation and sought to bring together the day's foremost artists, scientists and scholars."
Content:
"In 1965-66, Kepes edited a set of six anthologies, published as a series called the Vision + Value Series. Each volume contained more than 200 pages of essays by some of the most prominent artists, designers, architects and scientists of the time. The richness of the volumes is reflected in their titles: The Education of Vision; Structure in Art and Science; The Nature and Art of Motion; Module, Symmetry, Proportion, Rhythm; Sign, Image, Symbol; and The Man-Made Object."
Content:
"This volume presents a general evaluation of the man-made object as an important environmental factor in the shaping of our twentieth-century mores, feelings, and values. The man-made object, from ornamental trifles to large scale buildings, is here considered not only for its formal and aesthetic aspects, but also for its psychological and sociological impact."
Note:
The man-made object / Gillo Dorfles -- Object forms and functions : contrasts and analogies [photo essay] / Gyorgy Kepes -- The origins of form in art / Herbert Read -- Eye to eye / Joan M. Erikson -- The fundamental elements of Japanese object-making / Kazuhiko Egawa -- The meeting : man and man-made object : architectural implications / Michael J. Blee -- The emperor's old clothes / Marshall McLuhan -- From a set of forces to a form / Christopher Alexander -- Form, the tangible expression of a reality / Leonardo Ricci -- Genesis of design / Marcel Breuer -- Rietveld and the man-made object : object design, significant examples / Theodore M. Brown -- Object-design : significant examples [photo essay] / Gyorgy Kepes -- Objects for a painter / Jean Hélion -- Youths and motorcycles / Henry S. Stone, Jr. -- The object as self-image / Frederick S. Wight -- From Achilles' shield to junk / Dore Ashton -- The object and "realism" in contemporary art / Françoise Choay -- Biographical notes on the authors
Language:
English
Keywords:
Case studies
;
Edited volumes
