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Gyorgy Kepes: Undreaming the Bauhaus

Gyorgy Kepes: Undreaming the Bauhaus

Blakinger, John R.

Hardcover

Art HistoryArchitecture History

Publisher Price: $55.00

ISBN10: 0262039869
ISBN13: 9780262039864
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Jun 25 2019
Pages: 504
Weight: 2.90
Height: 1.30 Width: 7.40 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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 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.

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