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Kepes’ 1944 book is a timely re-introduction both to Modernism, and to how we see and understand
visual phenomena. It is a utopian call for artists and designers to use the extended palette of Mod-
ernism in order to ‘reshape our lives’ (this in the aftermath of WW2). Kepes had studied design and
photography with Lazlo Moholy Nagy in Berlin and relocated with him to London in 1936, where he
met his future wife Juliet Appleby (above - centre-right). The next year they both accompanied Mo-
holy to the New Bauhaus in Chicago. He developed the field of visual studies, publishing The Lan-
gage of Vision in 1944. Three years after publication, Kepes founded the Centre for Advanced Visual
Studies at MIT. https://modernism101.com/products-page/art-photo/kepes-gyorgy-language-of-vision-chicago-theobold-1944/ #.XyPcB_hKjUI
Richard Buckminster Fuller: Dymaxion Air Ocean Map 1943.
Fuller’s inspired cartographical realisation of the new ‘air ocean’ of the land-mass of the world re- configured by Air travel...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map
