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György Kepes

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György Kepes

Born October 4, 1906

Died December 29, 2001 · aged 95

György Kepes (Hungarian: [ˈkɛpɛʒ ˈɟørɟ]; October 4, 1906 – December 29, 2001) was a Hungarian-born painter, photographer, designer, educator, and art theorist. After immigrating to the U.S. in 1937, he taught design at the New Bauhaus (later the School of Design, then Institute of Design, then Illinois Institute of Design or IIT) in Chicago. In 1967 he founded the Center for Advanced Visual Studie…

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Der FeinschmeckerDer Feinschmecker
Der Feinschmecker
MovieDocumentary
Publicity film for Jena Glass.
Gyorgy KepesGyorgy Kepes · 1966
Gyorgy Kepes
1966
MovieDocumentary
This film focuses on Gyorgy Kepes, an influential Hungarian-American artist with whom Frank Eidlitz studied in 1966. Kepes, a professor at MIT, founded the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) in 1967 to facilitate the intersection between art, science and technology. The film, though silent, features Kepes speaking at a seminar. It includes title cards towards the beginning, including one introducing Gyorgy Kepes and another showing a brochure for a symposium accompanying the exhibition in January 1966. It also includes close-ups of Kepes’ influential books, including editions in a variety of languages.
Flame OrchardFlame Orchard · 1972
Flame Orchard
1972
Movie
Filmed presentation of Flame Orchard, a 20-foot (6-metre) field of burning gas flames that respond to music, designed by György Kepes in collaboration with William Walton, Paul Earls, and Mauricio Bueno, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., 1972.

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