Interaction of Color

Informationen zum Autor Josef Albers , one of the most influential artist-educators of the 20th century, was a member of the Bauhaus group in Germany during the 1920s. In 1933 he came to the United States, where he taught at Black Mountain College for sixteen years. In 1950 he joined the faculty at Yale University as chairman of the Department of Design. The recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees, Albers was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1968 and was professor emeritus of art at Yale until his death in 1976. Nicholas Fox Weber is executive director of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. Klappentext Conceived as a handbook and teaching aid for artists, instructors, and students, this timeless book presents Albers' unique ideas of color experimentation in a way that is valuable to specialists as well as to a larger audience.One of the most influential books on colour ever published, Josef Albers' "Interaction of Color" is a masterwork. This book replicates Albers' revolutionary exercises, explaining concepts such as colour relativity and vibrating and vanishing boundaries through the use of colour, shape, die-cut forms, and movable flaps.

Product details

• Authors: Josef Albers, Albers Josef
• Assisted by: Nicholas Fox Weber (Foreword)
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2010
• EAN: 9780300146936
• ISBN: 978-0-300-14693-6
• No. of pages: 300
• Dimensions: 287 mm x 355 mm x 60 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Theory of art, ART / Techniques / General, ART / Criticism & Theory, The Arts: techniques and principles