Gyorgy Kepes
Undreaming the Bauhaus
$98.48
- Hardcover
504 pages
- Release Date
25 June 2019
Summary
How Gyorgy Kepes, the last disciple of Bauhaus modernism, became the single most significant artist within a network of scientific experts and elites.Gyorgy Kepes (1906-2001) was the last disciple of Bauhaus modernism, an acolyte of Laszl 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 t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262039864 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262039869 |
| Author: | John R. Blakinger |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 504 |
| Release Date: | 25 June 2019 |
| Weight: | 1.32kg |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 178mm x 32mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
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An overdue treatment of the Hungarian-born artist and designer Gyorgy Kepes (1906-2001) explores his career, from designing books in Berlin in the 1930s to teaching at the New Bauhaus in Chicago and founding the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at M.I.T. Technology and war are often common threads in Kepes’s work. Innovating forms of camouflage during World War II, his designs coincided with clashes around M.I.T.’s connections with the military during the Vietnam War. Mr. Blakinger argues that Kepes represents a new form of modern artist fluent in and influenced by technology: ‘the artist as technocrat.’
—Martha Schwendener, The New York TimesAbout The Author
John R. Blakinger
John R. Blakinger is the 2018-2019 Terra Foundation Visiting Professor of American Art at the University of Oxford.
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