0299 Verlockende Struktur und gefährliche Ganzheit

György Kepes’ Band "Struktur in Kunst und Wissenschaft" als Bindeglied zwischen Vorkriegsavantgarden, Strukturalismus und Postmoderne

Abstract

After 1945, the term 'structure' became a guiding category not only in the sciences but also in the arts. In 1965, while teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, György Kepes published in the MIT series vision + value the anthology Structure in Art and Science, which contains individual contributions by various authors from different disciplines. Through a close reading, I show how these build on elementarist concepts of the pre-World War II period, while at the same time offering connecting possibilities to so-called poststructuralist models of thought. In addition, I examine how macro photographs were used suggestively in this context to create a holistic unity of art and nature.