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Born October 4, 1906 • Hungary
Died December 29, 2001 (aged 95) • Cambridge • Massachusetts
Subjects Of Study visual arts • design

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Flame Orchard, a 20-foot (6-metre) field of burning gas flames that respond to music, designed by Gyorgy Kepes in collaboration with William Walton, Paul Earls, and Mauricio Bueno, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., 1972.
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