John R. Blakinger

John R. Blakinger is the 2018-2019 Terra Visiting Professor of American Art at the University of Oxford. His book György Kepes: Undreaming the Bauhaus is forthcoming in June 2019. The project explores the fraught relationship between art, science and military power during the Cold War through the work of artist, designer and visual theorist György Kepes. Blakinger received his PhD from Stanford in 2016 and was recently a Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at the University of Southern California.