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Josef Albers: A Retrospective Paperback – January 1, 1988

by Josef Albers (Author), Nicholas Fox Weber (Contributor)
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  1. Print length
    304 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Solomon R Guggenheim Museum
  4. Publication date
    January 1, 1988
  5. ISBN-10
    0892070676
  6. ISBN-13
    978-0892070671
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For most museum-goers, the name of Josef Albers (1888-1976) is synonymous with his famous Homage to the Square series, or perhaps his Bauhaus armchairs. This catalogue of a revelatory retrospective at New York's Guggenheim Museum gives us an artist whose craftsmanship and sense of order touched everything he did, from deft sketches of roosters and collages of leaves to large-scale murals and improvisational paintings that exult in strokes or daubs of pure color. Accompanied by 281 illustrations, the book includes five essays by scholars exploring how the colorful assemblages and sandblasted-glass constructions of the Bauhaus years prefigured the artist's later abstracts. Weber, director of the Josef Albers Foundation, struggles mightily to interpret the squares-within-squares as a spiritual odyssey, comparing them to cathedrals, steeples, "the core from which everything emanates" and medieval Madonnas.
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Solomon R Guggenheim Museum; First Paperback Edition (January 1, 1988)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0892070676
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0892070671
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds
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Josef Albers

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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.

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