Josef Albers: To Open Eyes: The Bauhaus, Black Mountain College, and Yale
by Frederick A. Horowitz, Brenda Danilowitz
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This volume provides a fascinating study of the revolutionary painter and teacher, Josef Albers (1888-1976). Albers began his teaching career in 1923, when Walter Gropius invited him to join the faculty of the Bauhaus in Germany, where he quickly replaced the school's standard course curriculum with his own innovative methods. After moving to the United States, he taught at Black Mountain College in North Carolina and then at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut until he retired in show more 1954. Overall, Albers's passionate commitment to teaching was matched only by his devotion to his own artistic development. While he is widely perceived as a strong-minded theoretician, he was, in fact, as this volume reveals, against rigid dogma and he encouraged his students to develop lively and original solutions to his many and varied design exercises. On their first day in his classroom, Albers's students were informed that his goal was to educate their eyes and that he was going to teach them how to think and to see, an agenda belied by the somewhat prosaic course names "Basic Drawing" and "Basic Design." Overall, as a thinker, writer (Albers's important volume The Interaction of Colorwas published in 1963 by Yale) and educator he has directly and indirectly influenced generations of established artists, including Robert Mangold, Robert Rauschenberg, and Donald Judd, among many others. This book provides not only a compelling study of a key figure of 20th century art, but also ponders what constitutes art and how it is made. show lessTags
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Primer libro que se centra en cómo el legendario artista / educador Josef Albers (1888-1976) influyó en generaciones de artistas, incluyendo a Donald Judd, Robert Rauschenberg y Robert Mangold, ahora disponible en edición de bolsillo incorpora material de archivo rara, incluyendo detrás de las escenas de la fotografía documental de Albers vida y té métodos ching en la Bauhaus, Negro Mountain College y Yale Revela Albers filosofías formativas sobre el arte, la vida y la naturaleza de la percepción a través de relatos de primera mano de más de 150 estudiantes y colegas durante más de 40 años destaca por su frondosa reproducciones en color de clásico 1963 Interacción Albers 'de color tomadas de pruebas de imprenta originales
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Brenda Danilowitz is chief curator at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. She has taught art history at the Universities of Connecticut and Hartford and at Yale.
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