Catalog accompanying the landmark exhibition organized by Gyorgy Kepes at Harvard's Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts and published in 1965 by Harvard University. Conceived at the intersection of art, architecture, science, and technology, the exhibition explored light not merely as illumination but as an independent artistic medium. Documented are experimental environments, kinetic constructions, projected forms, reflective structures, and perceptual investigations that anticipated later developments in media art, environmental art, and the Light and Space movement. Square 8vo (9” x 9”), pictorial wrappers, 40 pages, illustrated throughout in b/w. With textual contributions by Gyorgy Kepes, I. Bernard Cohen, and Costas Papaliolios, Book design by Albert Gregory.
A visually striking production featuring an Op Art-inspired cover design and numerous photographs of installations and light experiments, many of them inherently ephemeral. An important early document of Kepes's efforts to foster collaboration between artists, scientists, and engineers at Harvard and MIT, laying intellectual groundwork for the Center for Advanced Visual Studies established two years later.
A significant document of postwar art-and-technology culture. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities, with moderate soiling and creasing to rear wrapper.
Catalog accompanying the landmark exhibition organized by Gyorgy Kepes at Harvard's Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts and published in 1965 by Harvard University. Conceived at the intersection of art, architecture, science, and technology, the exhibition explored light not merely as illumination but as an independent artistic medium. Documented are experimental environments, kinetic constructions, projected forms, reflective structures, and perceptual investigations that anticipated later developments in media art, environmental art, and the Light and Space movement. Square 8vo (9” x 9”), pictorial wrappers, 40 pages, illustrated throughout in b/w. With textual contributions by Gyorgy Kepes, I. Bernard Cohen, and Costas Papaliolios, Book design by Albert Gregory.
A visually striking production featuring an Op Art-inspired cover design and numerous photographs of installations and light experiments, many of them inherently ephemeral. An important early document of Kepes's efforts to foster collaboration between artists, scientists, and engineers at Harvard and MIT, laying intellectual groundwork for the Center for Advanced Visual Studies established two years later.
A significant document of postwar art-and-technology culture. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities, with moderate soiling and creasing to rear wrapper.
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