The New Landscape in Art and Science - By György Kepes 

Rare 1956 First Edition, published by Paul Theobald and Co. Chicago, Hardcover with Dust jacket 

This book is a first edition hardcover measuring 8.75” width x 11.25” height. 383 pages, hardcover with a photo-illustrated dust-jacket, illustrated in black-and-white. Book and typography designed by György Kepes. 

Overall it is in very good condition for a 68 year old book with minor wear and discoloration mostly due to age. The book has a few marks and creases noticeable in the first pages but the bulk of the interior is in very good condition. The brown cloth cover features a silver de-bossed design. The paper dust jacket is on good condition but discolored, dogeared and separated in two. The front cover is intact with a wonderful photo illustration. Please see photo’s of the actual book being offered for the condition. 

Title: The New Landscape in Art and Science — First Edition 

Publisher: Paul Theobald and Co. 

Publication Date: 1956 

Binding: Hardcover 

Condition: Very Good 

Dust Jacket Condition: Good 

Kepes, a Hungarian-born painter, designer, educator, and art theorist, connected with Laszlo Moholy-Nagy in Europe, learning the Bauhaus teaching directly from his friend and mentor, eventually joining him as an instructor at the New Bauhaus/Chicago School of Design in 1937. Moving on to MIT, where in 1967 he founded the innovative Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS), a laboratory for the study of the interrelationships of science, technology, and art. 

The book stands as an early attempt to bridge the divide between what C. P. Snow famously called The Two Cultures — science and the humanities — pivoting around the new way of seeing espoused by Le Corbusier (Vers une Architecture, 1923), Moholy-Nagy (The New Vision, 1928), and of course Kepes himself (The Language of Vision, 1944). With contributions from leading figures in the fields of biology, physics, physiology, mathematics, crystallography, psychology, philosophy, engineering, architecture, sculpture, painting, poetry and art history. Most notably: Jean Arp, Naum Gabo, Siegfried Giedion, Walter Gropius, S.I. Hayakawa, Jean Helion, Fernand Leger, Richard Neutra, Bruno Rossi, and Norbert Wiener.

With essays and bibliographical references including work by Josef Albers, Hans Arp, Sophie Tauber Arp, Herbert Bayer, Harry Bertoia, Max Bill, William Blake, Umberto Boccioni, Sandro Boticelli, Constantin Brancusi, Alexander Calder, Eduardo Catalano, Paul Cezanne, John Constable, Eugene Delacroix, Robert Delauney, Theo Van Doesburg, Jean Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, Albrecht Durer, Charles Eames, Viking Eggeling, Buckminster Fuller, Naum Gabo, Juan Gris, Mathis Gruünewald, Hans Hartung, Stanly Hayter, William Hogarth, Wassily Kandinsky, Gyorgy Kepes, Irme Kepes, Johannes Kepler, Paul Klee, Oskar Kokoschka, Frank Kupka, Le Corbusier, Fernand Leger, El Lissitzky, John Marin, Andre Masson, Joan Miro, Piet Mondrian, Claude Monet, Henry Moore, Richard Neutra, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Paul Rudolph, Eero Saarinen, Louis Sullivan, Eduardo Torroja, Mies van der Rohe, Henry van der Velde, Vincent Van Gogh, Georges Vantongerloo, Jacques Villon, Konrad Wachsman, Edward Weston, and many others.

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