Product Description: Josef Albers is widely recognized as a crucial figure in 20th-century art, both as an independent practitioner and as a teacher at the Bauhaus, Black Mountain College and Yale University. Albers made paintings, drawings and prints and designed furniture and typography...read more

Product Description: Josef Albers: No Tricks, No Twinkling of the Eyes presents a reading of Albers' artistic and pedagogic legacy through the lens of contemporary artists, writers and art historians. Selections from Albers' own writings, including classic texts such as "On My Painting," "Color" and "On My Homage to the Square," mingle with essays by well-known Albers scholars Nicholas Fox Weber ("Minimal Means, Maximum Effect") and Jeannette Redensek ("On Josef Albers' Painting Materials and Techniques"); meditations by Norwegian artist Dag Erik Elgin ("Preparing for Painting to Happen"), Eva Diaz ("Jailbreaking Geometric Abstraction") and Doug Ashford ("Dear Josef"); and a collage sequence by Andrea Geyer that pays homage to Albers' prints...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

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Product Description: During the winter of 1953/54, former Bauhaus professor Josef Albers (1888-1976) taught a three-part introductory course on drawing, material studies and color studies at the newly founded Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG) in Ulm--courses which anticipated his now classic text Interaction of Color (1963)...read more

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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.

Product Description: This volume provides a comprehensive record of the entire graphic oeuvre of this addictive maker of prints. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

An experimental approach to the study and teaching of color is comprised of exercises in seeing color action and feeling color relatedness before arriving at color theory

Product Description: Josef Albers’s Interaction of Color is a masterwork in twentieth-century art education. Conceived as a handbook and teaching aid for artists, instructors, and students, this timeless book presents Albers’s unique ideas of color experimentation in a way that is valuable to specialists as well as to a larger audience...read more