[1ST ED] The New Landscape in Art and Science (with dust jacket)

First edition of Gyorgy Kepes’s influential opus “The New Landscape in Art and Science, published in 1956 by Paul Theobald and Co. Kepes, a Hungarian-born painter, designer, educator, and art theorist, connected with Laszlo Moholy-Nagy in Europe, imbibing Bauhaus pedagogy directly from his friend and mentor, joining him as an instructor at the New Bauhaus/Chicago School of Design in 1937, and later landing at 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. Preceding that by over a decade, the present work 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, among them Jean Arp, Naum Gabo, Siegfried Giedion, Walter Gropius, S.I. Hayakawa, Jean Helion, Fernand Leger, Richard Neutra, Bruno Rossi, and Norbert Wiener. 4to (8.75 x 11.25-inch), 383 pages, hardcover with the photo-illustrated dust jacket, profusely illustrated, primarily in black-and-white. Book and typography design by Kepes. Scarce thus.