1975 Josef Albers INTERACTION OF COLOR Classic BAUHAUS Color Theory Design Book




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INTERACTION OF COLOR by Josef Albers 81 pages and many black and white illustrations and 8 color plates Josef Albers: INTERACTION OF COLOR. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975. Ninth printing from 1978. Slim quarto. Printed wrappers. 81 pp. 8 color plates. Black and white illustrations throughout. Interior unmarked and very clean.  A nearly fine copy.6 x 8 softcover book with 76 pages and many black and white illustrations and 8 color plates.   A nice copy of the unabridged te...xt of the original edition with selected plates. Josef Albers was one of the Bauhaus masters whose arrival in America profoundly influenced American modern art through his teachings at Black Mountain Colleg in North Carolina and later at Yale.  Interaction of Color, a masterwork of one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, is a brilliant display and explanation of the characteristics of color and the conditions under which certain optical phenomena occur.Josef Albers (1888 – 1976) was a German-born American artist and educator whose work formed the basis of some of the most influential and far-reaching art education programs of the twentieth century.Albers enrolled as a student in the Vorkurs of Johannes Itten at the Weimar Bauhaus in 1920. Although Albers had studied painting, it was as a maker of stained glass that he joined the faculty of the Bauhaus in 1922, approaching his chosen medium as a component of architecture and as a stand-alone art form. Walter Gropius, asked him in 1923 to teach in the preliminary course ‘Werklehre' of the department of design to introduce newcomers to the principles of handicrafts.In 1925, Albers was promoted to professor, the year the Bauhaus moved to Dessau. At this time, he married Anni Albers (née Fleischmann) who was a student there. His work in Dessau included designing furniture and working with glass. As a younger art teacher, he was teaching at the Bauhaus among artists who included Oskar Schlemmer, Wassily Kandinsky, and Paul Klee. The so-called form master, Klee taught the formal aspects in the glass workshops where Albers was the crafts master; they cooperated for several years.With the closure of the Bauhaus under Nazi pressure in 1933 the artists dispersed, most leaving the country. Albers emigrated to the United States. The architect Philip Johnson, then a curator at the Museum of Modern Art, arranged for Albers to be offered a job as head of a new art school, Black Mountain College, in North Carolina.Neither Josef Albers nor his wife Anni spoke a word of English when they left Germany for the United States in 1933 to teach at Black Mountain College, an art and design school that had opened a few months before on a shoestring budget in rural North Carolina. Founded by a radical educationalist John Rice, Black Mountain was committed to experimentation, cross-disciplinarity and the idea that everyone should pitch in, whether it was to teach a class, or fix the plumbing. The Alberses were defining influences on the school, whose students and teachers included many of the most influential US artists, designers and artisans of the late 20th century, from Cy Twombly and Robert Motherwell, to Willem and Elaine de Kooning. Merce Cunningham formed his first dance company there, John Cage staged his first happening, and they began lifelong collaborations with Robert Rauschenberg. The Alberses persuaded friends to help out, either by teaching like Xanti Schawinsky and Lyonel Feininger, designing buildings like Marcel Breuer and Walter Gropius, or donating books to the library like Alfred Barr and Walker Evans. Albers was the head of the painting program until 1949. Please visit my Ebay store  for an excellent and ever-changing selection of rare and out-of-print design books and periodicals covering all aspects of 20th-century visual culture. I offer shipping discounts for multiple purchases. Please contact me for details.Payment due within 3 days of purchase.

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