Gyorgy Kepes : undreaming the Bauhaus

How Gyorgy Kepes, the last disciple of Bauhaus modernism, became the single most significant artist within a network of scientific experts and elites. Gyorgy Kepes (1906-2001) was the last disciple of Bauhaus modernism, an acolyte of Lszlo Moholy-Nagy and a self-styled revolutionary artist. But by m...

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Main Author Blakinger, John R. (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge : MIT Press, 2019.
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ISBN9780262352994
9780262039864
DOI10.7551/mitpress/11890.001.0001
Physical Description1 online zdroj (480 stran) : ilustrace

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