"Events today appear to be accelerating insanely, as if we were living a million times more slowly among objects whirling beyond the threshold of our control… We should understand that this dizzying, runaway environment is just the final reverberation of a long-evolving change in the foundation of our knowledge and system of values... Not least among its roots is change in our scientific understanding of motion."
Kepes covers the many facets of motion and offers us a seminal pattern of interseeing, necessary if we are to achieve a greater understanding of our contemporary environment. This work examines motion as a pervasive aspect of nature and a key problem of contemporary physics; evolutionary motion as seen in the continual transformation of matter and ideas; perception of motion and its role as a generator of vision and insight; modern techniques, such as the film, which have used motion to extend the range of man-made images; the influence of the complex dynamics of the visual world on our ways of seeing, as expressed in some contemporary art.
Author: Gyorgy Kepes (editor)
Title: The Nature and Art of Motion
Edition: Third printing
Published: New York: George Braziller, 1965
Physical Description: Hardcover; Folio; 233p
Condition: Good condition dust jacket with edge wear, toning, rubbing to surfaces and waviness—in protector. Boards and spine clean with mild bumping to corners and crushing at spine ends—small markings at foot of boards. Binding solid and square. Pages tanned. Small markings on end-papers.
Comments: Very clean copy
