Author: Gyorgy Kepes; S. Giedion; S. I. Hayakawa
Title: Language of Vision
Description: Chicago, Paul Theobald, 1951. Cloth. A smart copy of this interesting work on painting, photography, and advertising-designs. With the original price-clipped dust wrapper. Scarce edition. With the original price-clipped dust wrapper. Illustrated with three hundred and eighteen images, some of which are in colour. A detailed study of visual expression from a realistic human point of view. This work analyses and explores the structure and function of the graphic image in painting photography and advertising-design. Written by György Kepes, a Hungarian-born painter, photographer, designer, and theorist. He founded the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he taught from 1967 until 1974. With introductory essays by Sigfried Giedion, a Bohemian-born Swiss historian and architectural critic, and Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa, a Canadian-born American academic and politician who served as U.S. Senator for California from 1977 to 1983. In the original black cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear to the extremities and the odd mark to the board. Original price-clipped dust wrapper is sound with light shelf wear and chipping resulting in light loss to the extremities. Marks to the board and the odd small closed tear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd handling mark. Light age toning to the endpapers. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good Indeed/Good.

Keywords: Language Vision Graphics Kepes Vision Hayawaka Not Stated


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