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Interacting with Color: A Practical Guide to Josef Albers’s Color Experiments
Learn from the master color theorist and renowned abstract artist, former teacher at the Bauhaus, Black Mountain College and then Yale – the one and only Josef Albers. As a pioneer of modernism he had huge influence on many of his former students including William de Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg and Susan Weil.
This new book presents the essence of Josef Albers’s Interaction of Color in a format that engages learners of all ages and levels and encourages a hands-on approach.
Focusing on eight of the most important lessons in Josef Albers’s Interaction of Color, this book invites readers to learn by doing, using only simple materials. Core instructions for each exercise are enhanced by additional tips, references to Albers’s original text and illustrations, and stories about how Albers presented the ideas in class.
The book and exercises are sufficiently nuanced to challenge and inspire seasoned artists, designers, and educators while also being readily accessible to younger readers and less-experienced practitioners.
Written by Fritz Horstman, Education Director at the Albers Foundation, this workbook companion is a teaching tool designed to enable readers to engage in the kinds of tactile creativity and exploration that characterized Albers’s own classroom.
Foreword by Nicholas Fox Weber.
Interacting with Color: A Practical Guide to Josef Albers’s Color Experiments, Yale University Press. Available to buy now.
Portrait image of Josef Albers, courtesy Josef and Anni Albers Foundation (rights reserved)