
This celebration of Albers’s legendary achievements is an essential addition to any serious art library. Also included for the first time are studies from the Albers archive, produced by the artist’s students in the early 1960s. It replicates Albers’s revolutionary exercises, explaining concepts such as color relativity and vibrating and vanishing boundaries through the use of color, shape, die-cut forms, and movable flaps that illustrate his astonishing demonstrations of the changing and relative nature of color. This beautiful edition brings Interaction back into classrooms and studios and onto bookshelves, where it will find an eager new audience. Originally issued in 1963 as a limited-edition set of commentary and 150 silkscreened color plates, the book introduced generations of students, artists, designers, and collectors to Albers’s unique approach to complex principles. Interaction of Color was more a hands-on kit, with its collection of more than 150 printed silkscreen color studies, a corresponding book of commentary and second book delving into. Interaction of Color: New Complete Edition Author: Josef Albers, Nicholas Fox Weber (Foreword), Albers, Josef Format: Hardcover Publish Date: ISBN-10: 0300146930 ISBN-13: 9780300146936 List Price: 250. Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers Josef Albers. Albers was a painter, designer and educator who is regarded as a pioneer of Modernism. A luxurious two-volume edition with the complete original plates, text, and commentary “Absolutely stunning.”-Felix Salmon, Reuters Josef Albers’s masterwork, Interaction of Color, is one of the most influential books on color ever published. This post discusses Josef Albers’ classic book ‘Interaction of Color,’ one of the most influential art and design texts of the 20 th century.
