Writings By Kepes
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Kepes, Gyorgy, 1906-2001
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content: Gyorgy Kepes papers
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content: Gyorgy Kepes papers / Series 4: Writings and Notes
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1948-circa 1980s
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.kepegyor, Subseries 4.1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Writings are arranged by type, and chronologically thereafter. Writings with circa dates are at the beginning of the category to which they belong. Lists and notes are arranged at the end of the series respectively, and follow the same chronological arrangement.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: The sound recording has been digitized for research access.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Applications and proposals are for an undated grant to design and construct an electronic kinetic generator, a 1959 Guggenheim application related to the creative use of light, and a 1974 proposal for Boston Harbor. 

Untitled essays are on subjects such as Asian scrolls, artistic idiom, perceptions of the spatial and complex dynamic environments, the man-made environment, contemporary cities, the dialog between man and light, environmental light and shadow, the energy crisis, kinetic aspects of visual experiences, and technology and randomness in twentieth century art. 

Published writings by Kepes are articles for journals such as Art and Architecture, Daedalus, Graphis, Leonardo, and others. Scattered additional published writings may be found in Series 8: Printed Material.

Lists include lists of artwork and writings by Kepes, and several lists of his commitments in the early 1970s. Additional scattered and incomplete lists relate to illustrations and photographs for various publications, and invitees to exhibitions.

Notes relate to subjects such as light and color, including an outline for a book on light, and continuity and sequence, and include a group of illustrated notes from the 1940s which appear to relate to Education of Vision, which was volume 1 of Vision + Value. 

The series includes one sound recording of a lecture Kepes delivered to the International Institute of Design.