Gyorgy kepes biography
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Gyorgy Kepes
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 bygd 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.
Blakinger traces Kep
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György Kepes
György and Juliet Kepes | |
| Born | October 4, 1906(1906-10-04) Selyp, Austria-Hungary (now Hungary) |
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| Died | December 29, 2001(2001-12-29) (aged 95) Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States |
| Web | Wikipedia, Academia.edu, Open Library |
György Kepes (1906–2001) was a Hungarian-born painter, designer, educator and art theorist. After emigrating to the U.S. in 1937, he taught design at the New Bauhaus (later the School of Design, then Institute of Design, then Illinois Institute of Design or IIT) in Chicago. In 1967, he founded the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he taught until his
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György Kepes
Hungarian-American artist (1906–2001)
The native form of this personal name is Kepes György. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
György Kepes (Hungarian:[ˈkɛpɛʒˈɟørɟ]; October 4, 1906 – December 29, 2001) was a Hungarian-born painter, photographer, designer, educator, and art theorist. After immigrating to the U.S. in 1937, he taught design at the New Bauhaus (later the School of Design, then Institute of Design, then Illinois Institute of Design or IIT) in Chicago. In 1967 he founded the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he taught until his retirement in 1974.[1][2]
Early years
[edit]Kepes was born in Selyp, Hungary. His younger brother was Imre Kepes, an ambassador in Argentina, father of András Kepes, journalist, documentary filmmaker and author.[3] His distinguished Jewish family included Gyula Kepes, doctor and polar explore