Kepes

Kepes
Kepes
 
['kɛpɛʃ], Gyorgy, eigentlich György Kepes, amerikanischer Künstler ungarischer Herkunft, * Selyp (bei Miskolc) 4. 10. 1906, ✝ Cambridge (Massachusetts) 29. 12. 2001; arbeitete 1934 in Berlin mit L. Moholy-Nagy zusammen, ab 1937 lehrte er am »New Bauhaus« in Chicago (Illinois), später ebenda am Institute for Design, seit 1946 am Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, USA), wo er 1967-74 das von ihm mitgegründete Center of Advanced Visual Studies leitete. Seine Beiträge zur Lichtkunst und Kinetik erschlossen diesen Richtungen eine neue, städtebauliche Dimension.
 
Schriften: The language of vision (1944; deutsch Sprache des Sehens); The new landscape in art and science (1956).
 
Herausgeber: Arts of the environment (1971).
 
 
G. K., Ausst.-Kat. (Cambridge, Mass., 1978).

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