The new landscape in art and science / Gyorgy Kepes

Kepes, Gyorgy (1906-2001). Burchard, John Ely (1898-1975). Gabo, Naum (1890-1977). Hayakawa, Samuel Ichiyé (1906-1992). Rossi, Bruno (1905-1993). Neutra, Richard Joseph (1892-1970). Wilbur, Richard (1921-2017). Léger, Fernand (1881-1955). Hélion, Jean (1904-1987). Giedion, Sigfried (1888-1968). Gropius, Walter (1883-1969). Morris, Charles William (1903-1979). Arp, Jean (1887-1966). Wiener, Norbert (1894-1964). Gerard, Ralph Waldo (1900-1974). Werner, Heinz (1890-1964). Pantin, Carl Frederick Abel (1899-1967). Lonsdale, Kathleen Dame (1903-1971). Weidlinger, Paul. Paul Theobald and Co. [publisher]

1956, First Edition. Chicago : Paul Theobald and Co. Poor copy bound in the original cloth boards with a worn dust wrapper. Wear and tear with the main text detached from the spine bands and boards, now loosely inserted. Text remains well preserved overall; bright and clean. Item #358838

Physical description; 383, [1] p. : ill. ; 29 cm. Notes; Date of publication from copyright date on title page verso. "Printed and bound in Chicago"-- title page verso. "452 illustrations, some in color"--dust jacket blurb. Includes bibliographical references. Contents; Acknowledgements -- Foreword / John E. Burchard -- Preface -- Introduction -- I. Art and science -- II. Image, form, symbol -- Art and science / Naum Gabo -- Domesticating the invisible / S.I. Hayakawa -- The esthetic motivation of science / Bruno Rossi -- III. The industrial landscape -- Inner and outer landscape / Richard J. Neutra -- Poetry and landscape / Richard Wilbur -- The new landscape / Fernand Leger -- Notes / Jean Helion -- Universalism and the enlargement of outlook / S. Giedion -- Reorientation / Walter Gropius -- Man-cosmos symbols / Charles Morris -- IV. The new landscape -- Magnification of optical data -- Expansion and compression of events in time -- Expansion of the eye's sensitivity range -- Modulation of signals -- V. Thing, structure, pattern, process -- VI. Transformation -- Transformation / Jean Arp -- VII. Analogue, metaphor -- Pure patterns in a natural world / Norbert Wiener -- Design and function in the living / R.W. Gerard -- On physiognomic perception / Heinz Werner -- VIII. Morphology in art and science -- IX. Symmetry, proportion, module -- Organic design / C.F. Pantin -- Art in crystallography / Kathleen Lonsdale -- Form in engineering / Paul Weidlinger -- X. Continuity, discontinuity, rhythm, scale -- Contributors biographies -- Name index. Subjects; Kepes, György (1906-2001). Nature (Aesthetics). Art Philosophy. Photography Scientific applications. Aesthetics. Art and science. Art - Theory. Art and science. Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated.

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