{"product_id":"gyorgy-kepes-john-r-blakinger-9780262039864","title":"Gyorgy Kepes: Undreaming the Bauhaus","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow Gyorgy Kepes, the last disciple of Bauhaus modernism, became the single most significant artist within a network of scientific experts and elites.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eGyorgy Kepes (1906-2001) was the last disciple of Bauhaus modernism, an acolyte of L szl  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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlakinger traces Kepes's career in the United States through a series of episodes: Kepes's work with the military on camouflage techniques; his development of a visual design pedagogy, as seen in the exhibition \u003ci\u003eThe New Landscape\u003c\/i\u003e and his book \u003ci\u003eThe New Landscape in Art and Science\u003c\/i\u003e; his encyclopedic \u003ci\u003eVision + Value\u003c\/i\u003e series; his unpublished magnum opus, the \u003ci\u003eLight Book\u003c\/i\u003e; the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS), an art-science research institute established by Kepes at MIT in 1967; and the Center's proposals for massive environmental installations that would animate the urban landscape. CAVS was entangled in the antiwar politics of the late 1960s, as many students and faculty protested MIT's partnerships with defense contractors--some of whom had ties to the Center. In attempting to \"undream\" the Bauhaus into existence in the postwar world, Kepes faced profound resistance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGenerously illustrated, drawing on the vast archive of Kepes's papers at Stanford and MIT's CAVS Special Collection, this book supplies a missing chapter in our understanding of midcentury modern and Cold War visual culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John R. Blakinger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0262039869\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780262039864\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/25\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 504\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 7.40w x 1.30d","brand":"John R. Blakinger","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43992906727679,"sku":"9780262039864","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_12578f26-53b3-4f10-8aab-8af5b3d2205f.jpg?v=1683321465","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/gyorgy-kepes-john-r-blakinger-9780262039864","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}