Josef Albers – Formulation: Articulation
T. G. Rosenthal.
Catalogue.
London 2006.
32.8 x 24.6 cm. 168 p.
with 135 (127 col.) ills.
Exhib'index, Chronology and Bibliography.
Cloth.
Text in English language.
[art-09041]
ISBN 978-0500238288
was 85,00€ 39,95
Josef Albers’ (1888-1976) “Formulation: Articulation“, issued as a limited edition set of prints in 1972 and published here as a book for the first time, is a unique opportunity to understand the ideas and methods of one of the most influential artists and theorists of the twentieth century.
Albers’ preoccupation with abstraction, colour and perception began when he was a student and teacher at the Bauhaus in Weimar and continued after he fled to America in 1933. Through his art, and his teaching at Black Mountain College and at Yale University, he influenced generations of artists, including Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Robert Rauschenberg and the exponents of Op art.
Albers drew on over forty years’ work in a variety of media – woodcuts, sandblasted glass pictures and oil paintings. In his various series paintings, he draws the viewer into a dynamic relationship with his work, showing how colour and line can be manipulated to have deceptive and unexpected effects.
All the elements of Albers’s thinking and experience on colour and geometrical relationships are embodied in “Formulation: Articulation“. The series of prints were carefully sequenced by the artist so that they can be examined and appreciated for their visual interaction or as striking works of art in their own right.
Statements by Albers about the images are provided on two fold-out sections and the text by the art critic T. G. Rosenthal sets the volume within the context of Albers’s life and work.
Albers’ preoccupation with abstraction, colour and perception began when he was a student and teacher at the Bauhaus in Weimar and continued after he fled to America in 1933. Through his art, and his teaching at Black Mountain College and at Yale University, he influenced generations of artists, including Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Robert Rauschenberg and the exponents of Op art.
Albers drew on over forty years’ work in a variety of media – woodcuts, sandblasted glass pictures and oil paintings. In his various series paintings, he draws the viewer into a dynamic relationship with his work, showing how colour and line can be manipulated to have deceptive and unexpected effects.
All the elements of Albers’s thinking and experience on colour and geometrical relationships are embodied in “Formulation: Articulation“. The series of prints were carefully sequenced by the artist so that they can be examined and appreciated for their visual interaction or as striking works of art in their own right.
Statements by Albers about the images are provided on two fold-out sections and the text by the art critic T. G. Rosenthal sets the volume within the context of Albers’s life and work.