Josef Albers

Interaction of Color

T. G. Rosenthal

Published in book form for the first time, a collection of woodcuts, sandblasted glass pictures, and oil paintings offers insight into the late artist's use of abstractions, color, and perception effects, in a volume that shares key passages from his personal writings.

Formulation : Articulation

Despite Straight Lines

Michael Beggs

Josef Albers (1888-1976) was both a pioneer of abstract art and an enormously influential teacher and theorist of art pedagogy. In the work he made at the Bauhaus and--following his emigration from Germany to the U.S.--at Black Mountain College and Yale University, Albers strived for economy of line and clarity of articulation, and he developed his pedagogy along similarly rigorous lines. At Black Mountain College, Albers encountered the educational theories of the great American philosopher John Dewey, who emphasized the importance of context and experience in education, and whose famous statement on aesthetics, "Art as Experience," was published the year after Albers arrived in the U.S. In 1963, Albers published the profoundly influential book "Interaction of Color." Subsequently translated into 12 languages, it continues to be used in classrooms and studios worldwide. "Josef Albers: Art as Experience" looks at the relationship between Albers' pragmatic (and Pragmatist) teaching and his art, presenting previously unseen works by Albers' students from the Bauhaus and elsewhere, along with little-known studies and other art by Albers himself, and reveals the vibrancy and extraordinary impact of Josef Albers' groundbreaking pedagogical methods.

the teaching methods of a Bauhaus master

Art as experience

An introduction to shapes through the acclaimed art of Josef Albers The influential art of Josef Albers is used to teach shapes in this stylish read-aloud board book, which takes children through Albers' range of geometrics, one artwork per page, beginning with squares and returning to them as a familiar refrain throughout. The variance of colour, scale, and quantity adds to the richness of the visual arc, and the accompanying text provides a humorous and engaging commentary. Readers will not only learn their shapes, but also grow familiar with fine art in this second title in the 'First Concepts with Fine Artists' series. Includes a read-aloud `about the artist? at the end.

Squares & Other Shapes: with Josef Albers

In Poems and Drawings, first published in 1958, Josef Albers attempted to penetrate the meaning of art and life by the simplest, most disciplined means. This project was extremely important to Albers, who used its format to create complementary forms in both word and line that appear deceptively simple until they begin to disclose the author’s insights into nature, art, and life. Conceived as a kind of artist’s book, the publication features 22 of Albers’s refined line drawings alongside the same number of his original poems—each appearing in both English and German. Printed initially in a limited edition and long out of print, this new edition of Poems and Drawings replicates Albers’s original book design and includes four previously unpublished poems that reveal playful and tender details behind Albers’s personal relationships, along with a new introduction by Nicholas Fox Weber. For admirers of Albers, Poems and Drawings will provide a closer look at a celebrated artist who was also an affectionate and articulate writer.

Poems and Drawings

Interazione del colore. Esercizi per imparare a vedere

Nicholas Fox Weber

Press kit consists of press release, dated March 24, 1988 (4 leaves), and three photo sheets of works by Albers.

A Retrospective

spiritualità e rigore = spirituality and rigor

Homage to the Square Journal

Anni Albers

Martin Filler

The most comprehensive book on the furniture, textiles and other works of two of the most important and influential artists of the twentieth century. Featuring the many innovative objects that the couple designed while teaching at the Bauhaus in Germany and after their move to the United States in 1933, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in twentieth-century design.

Designs for Living

Josef + Anni Albers

The Interaction of color complete digital edition allows users to explore the book's ideas and experiment with color the way Albers intended. Users can navigate between the text, commentary, and 122 plates from the new complete edition (Yale University Press in association with the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, 2009); take notes, highlight text, and bookmark chapters; use an embedded glossary to define key terms; and zoom into plates for additional detail. Inspired by Albers' teaching methodologies, each plate is designed to reproduce the experience of working with cut and colored paper. By moving the "pieces" of the plate, users can see how the same color can look different when shown on different grounds; create, save, and share their own color design exercises by downloading the SVG file to their favorite design software. Includes archival audio and video of Josef Albers and contemporary interviews with his former students on his teaching methods, as well as contemporary interviews with artists, designers, and architects discussing their use of color.

Text

Fabio De Chirico

Josef Albers (1888-1976) believed firmly in art's spiritual dimension. Among his several aphorisms on the topic, none reflects the humble, ascetic character of his spiritual disposition better than the following: "Easy to know that diamonds are precious. Good to know that rubies have depth. But more to see that pebbles are miraculous." Conceived by the renowned Albers expert Nicholas Fox Weber, who directed the Albers Foundation for 20 years and knew the artist well, Spirituality and Rigor presents a selection of work by Albers that illustrates his ascetic spirituality and his deeply felt Catholicism. The book stems in part from Fox Weber's The Sacred Modernist: Josef Albers as a Catholic Artist, and is augmented with additional work by Fabio De Chirico. It includes Albers' early drawings of country churches and cathedrals; "Rosa Mystica," his stained glass window for St Michael's Church, and other glass works containing religious imagery; his abstractions of crosses and geometric abstractions with spiritually themed titles, from his Black Mountain years; his prints of Mexican gods; photographic interpretations of the theme of angels; and a selection from the Homage to the Square series. This important volume is the most thorough portrait yet published of Albers' spiritual convictions.

spiritualità e rigore

13. März bis 19. April, 1970, Kunstverein München

Bilder und "interaction of color."

Catalog of an exhibition held at Waddington Galleries, London, Feb. 28-Mar. 24, 2007.

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