Josef Albers : interaction / edited by Heinz Liesbrock in collaboration with Ulrike Growe ; on behalf of Kulturstiftung Ruhr, Villa Hügel ; with contributions by Anni Albers [and nine others]
301 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 31 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Exhibition catalogs
Essays
Illustrated works
Place:
Germany
Date:
2018
20th century
Notes:
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Josef Albers: Interaction, Villa Hügel, Essen, Germany, June 16-October 7, 2018.
"Josef Albers: Interaction" : June 16, 2018-October 7, 2018, Villa Hügel, Essen, Germany.
Contents:
The square in the villa / Susanne Henle, Volker Troche -- Josef Albers: Exile and emigré / Brenda Danilowitz -- Sequence and seeing: The photocollages of Joseph Albers / Michael Beggs -- Activating the negative as a pedagogical method / Eeva-Lisa Pelkonen -- Honesty and modesty: Josef Albers / Heinz Liesbrock -- Magical glass: On my glass pictures / Josef Albers -- The Bauhaus: Reform and innovation, at the Bauhaus / Josef Albers -- Sandblasted glass / Josef Albers -- Another take-off: Both Americas -- 1933: Farewell and future / Josef Albers -- The promised land of abstract art: Albers in Mexico / Heinz Liesbrock -- Variants: Measuring color, on painting the variants / Josef Albers -- Pre-Columbian sculptures -- Pre-Columbian art / Anni Albers -- Farbenfabeln: On the origins and development of the "Homage to the square" / Jeanette Redensek -- Homage to the square -- Semblance and color / Ulrike Growe -- From the church to the plaza: Josef Albers, artist and catholic / Charles Darwent -- The spiritual artist -- The silence of an icon / Heinz Liesbrock -- Influencing -- American resonances / Heinz Liesbrock -- Donald Judd on Josef Albers / Heinz Liesbrock -- "High Spring" / Donald Judd -- Looking at air: The fingerprint of Josef Albers / Jerry Zeniuk -- An illustrated biography / Ulrike Growe
Summary:
"Features all aspects of the artist's long career: paintings, prints, furniture, household objects, works in glass, photographs, and pre-Columbian sculptures"-- Provided by publisher.
"Josef Albers (1888-1976) was one of the leading pioneers of 20th-century modernism; he was an extraordinary teacher, writer, painter, and color theorist, who is best known for hte 'Homage to the Square' (painted 1950-76) and 'Interaction of Color', published by Yale University Press in 1963. This generously illustrated overview of Albers's work, accompanying the first major exhibition on the artist in more than thirty years, features all aspects of his long, creative career. Beginning with Albers's time at the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau, the publication follows the artist to America and describes major themes of his work there as well as the importance of his frequent travels to Mexico. Paintings, prints, furniture, household objects, works in glass, photographs, and pre-Columbian sculptures are beautifully reproduced and discussed by a team of experts. The juxtaposition of Renaissance sculptures and icons with paintings by Albers underlines the intellectual and spiritual dimensions of his art, and Albers's influence on 1960s Minimalist art is also explored. Including a comprehensive biography, the book convincingly demonstrates how this great artist transformed modern design by using color, surface, and space to challenge the perception of the viewer." --publisher's description, dust jacket.
