The New Landscape in Art and Science by György Kepes, 1961, 2nd Printing (1st ed., 1956). Paul Theobald and Co., Chicago, USA. 8.5 x 11, pp. 384, printed in Chicago. Design by György Kepes (1906—2001).
A seminal and unique work ... a picture book dealing with the fundamental problems of visual expression revealed through scientific and technological developments; “meant to be looked at more than read” and “organized to help the reader to see” and make their own connections. Heavily illustrated with (452) mostly black and white illustrations.
In (10) chapters: I. Art and Science; II. Image, Form, Symbol; III. The Industrial Landscape; IV. The New Landscape; V. Thing, Structure, Pattern, Process; VI. Transformation: Physical, Perceptual, Symbolic; VII. Analogue, Metaphor; VIII. Morphology in Art and Science; IX. Symmetry, Proportion, Module; and X. Continuity, Discontinuity, Rhythm, Scale. With Acknowledgments, a Foreword, Preface and Introduction.
For the dust jacket design, Kepes contrasted an artistic image (a radiograph of a rose) with a symbol of science (dots from a computer punch tape). Featuring essays and comments by pioneering figures (including bios) in their respective fields: Jean Arp, Bruno Rossi (Physicist), Naum Gabo, R.W. Gerard (Professor in Neurophysiology and Physiology), Siegfried Giedion, Carl Pantin (Zoologist), Walter Gropius, S. I. Hayakawa, Jean Helion, Kathleen Lonsdale (Professor of Chemistry), Fernand Leger, Norbert Wiener (Professor of Mathematics), and Richard J. Neutra among others.
A fine hardcover cloth in it’s very good plus, price-clipped photo-illustrated dust jacket with light wear, some toning and a few small tears and creases near the edges. Laid-in is a tri-fold order form brochure advertising the publisher’s titles An excellent copy of an important book; recommended!