Gyorgy Kepes (György)
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| Monograph | 1978 | Cambridge MA: MIT Press | The MIT Years 1945-77 | György Kepes | 978-0-9713244-6-6. | Chicago | ||||||
| Monograph | 2015 | The New York Times | Gyorgy Kepes, Wizard of Light and Motion, Comes Back Into Focus | Alice Rawsthorn | 0362-4331 | New York | ||||||
| Monograph | 1948 | Paul Theobald | Language of Vision. Painting, Photography, Advertising Design | Gyorgy Kepes | Chicago |
Exhibitions
Liverpool, UK
Tate Liverpool: György Kepesxhibition. March 6 to May 31, 2015.
"The first solo exhibition of his work in the UK will explore how he worked across disciplines, experimenting with photography, art and science." (Cit: Tate Liverpool, Exhibition Info)
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Exhibitions
Standford / CA, US
This exhibition explores the question of art’s relevance in a scientific age through the work of Hungarian-born American artist, designer, and visual theorist Gyorgy Kepes (1906–2001). Forty-five panels depict what Kepes, associated with Germany’s Bauhaus and Chicago’s New Bauhaus, called the “new landscape” of scientific imagery—microscopic minerals, cellular patterns, and tissue fibers—as well as Kepes’s own experiments with camera-less photographic techniques.
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Died
2001
Research and teaching
Boston, US
He founded the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he taught until his retirement in 1974.
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Publications
Education of Vision, Kepes, Gyorgy, George Braziller Inc., NYC, 1965,
Essays by Rudolf Arnheim, Mirko Basaldella, Julian Beinart, Will Burtin, Anton Ehrenzweig, William J.J. Gordon, Bartlett H. Hayes, Jr., Gerald Holton, Johannes Itten, Tomas Maldonado, Wolfgang Metzger, Robert Preusser, Paul Rand, Robert J. Wolff
Research and teaching
Chicago, USA
The Nagy connection was to have greater import than Kepes ever dreamed. In 1937, Nagy was invited to establish a New Bauhaus in Chicago and he invited Kepes to join him there to found a light and color department, the first of its kind in the United States.
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Places of residence
Berlin, Germany
He moved to Berlin in 1930 at the invitation of a fellow Hungarian, Moholy-Nagy, a charismatic former Bauhaus teacher, who was at the forefront of experimentation with light and moving imagery.
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Education
Budapest, Hungary
In 1924 he entered Budapest’s Royal Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied with Istvan Csok Hungary until 1928.
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Places of work / studios
Boston, USA
Rathsthorn, Alice: A Master of Image and Information. New York Times (Online), October 10, 2010. URL http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/11/arts/11iht-design11.html?_r=0 January 5, 2016
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Kinetic Outdoor Light Mural | 1949 | Gyorgy Kepes | |
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Luminous wall for Boston Harbor Bicentennial | 19641965 | Gyorgy Kepes | |
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The Pleasure of Light | 2010 | Gyorgy Kepes | |