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Gyorgy Kepes

Painter, muralist, designer, filmmaker, educator; Cambridge, Mass. Born 1906. Died Dec. 29, 2001. Born in Selyp, Hungary, Kepes studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest, working with Moholy-Nagy in Berlin and London before joining him at the New Bauhaus (later the Chicago Institute of Design) in 1937. From1946-1980 he was professor of visual design at MIT, as well as director of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies from 1967-1974. Kepes has written several books and articles on the visual arts and design.

Alternate Names
Kepes, Gyorgy
György Kepes
Birth
1906
Birth Location
Selyp, Hungary
Death
2001
Death Location
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Gender
male
Nationalities
American
american,
teacher of
Tony Smith
Partner URL
http://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=&role=&nation=&subjectid=500028012
Linked Data URI
ulan:500028012
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Selected Images of Gyorgy Kepes

Gyorgy Kepes (Wendy Snyder MacNeil, 1983)

Objects at Archives of American Art (1)

http://data.aaa.si.edu/collection/7252

Objects at Colby College Museum of Art (1)

Untitled (from AARW series) (György Kepes, 1968)

Objects at Princeton University Art Museum (1)

Juliet's Shadow Caged (György Kepes, 1938)

Objects at Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields (13)

Untitled (Gyorgy Kepes, 1906-2001)
Untitled (Gyorgy Kepes, 1906-2001)
Untitled (Gyorgy Kepes)
Untitled (Gyorgy Kepes)
Untitled (Gyorgy Kepes)
Untitled (Gyorgy Kepes)
Untitled (Gyorgy Kepes)
Untitled (Gyorgy Kepes)
Manipulated Rectangles (Gyorgy Kepes, 1959)
Untitled (Gyorgy Kepes, 1906-2001)
Steel (Gyorgy Kepes, 1948)
Untitled (Gyorgy Kepes, about 1940)
Troubled Mirror (Gyorgy Kepes, 1962)

Objects at Smithsonian American Art Museum (17)

"There are other forms of culture beside physical science; and I should be profoundly sorry to see the fact forgotten, or even to observe a tendency to starve, or cripple, literary, or aesthetic, culture for the sake of science." --Thomas Henry Huxley, Scientific Education, 1869. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man. (Gyorgy Kepes, 1958)
Folding Cartons Plus, from the Early Series (Gyorgy Kepes, ca. late 1930s-early 1940s)
One Integrated Flow of Production, from the Early Series (Gyorgy Kepes, ca. late 1930s)
Earth Archive (Gyorgy Kepes, 1959)
Untitled (Gyorgy Kepes, 1968)
One Integrated Flow of Production, from the Early Series (Gyorgy Kepes, 1940)
Technique, from the Early Series (Gyorgy Kepes, 1938)
One Integrated Flow of Production, from the Early Series (Gyorgy Kepes, 1938)
Paperboard Goes to War, from the Early Series (Gyorgy Kepes, ca. late 1930s-early 1940s)
A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong...For neither in war nor yet at law ought I or any man to use every means of escaping death ...The difficulty, my friends, is not to avoid death, but to avoid unrighteousness...Wherefore, O judges, be of good cheer about death, and know of a certainty that no evil can happen to a good man in life or after death. --Socrates on doing right or wrong. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man. (Gyorgy Kepes, 1952)
Paperboard Goes to War, from the Early Series (Gyorgy Kepes, ca. late 1930s-early 1940s)
One Integrated Flow of Production, from the Early Series (Gyorgy Kepes, ca. 1938)
Replacement Packaging, from the Early Series (Gyorgy Kepes, ca. late 1930s to early 1940s)
Paperboard Goes to War, from the Early Series (Gyorgy Kepes, ca. late 1930s-early 1940s)
Responsibility, from the Early Series (Gyorgy Kepes, 1938)
Monument (Gyorgy Kepes, 1950)
One Integrated Flow of Production, from the Early Series (Gyorgy Kepes, ca. late 1930s-early 1940s)