BRENDA DANILOWITZ

First book to focus on how the legendary artist/educator Josef Albers (18881976) influenced generations of artists, including Donald Judd, Robert Rauschenberg and Robert Mangold, now available in paperback Incorporates rare archival material, including behind-the-scenes documentary photography of Albers'' life and teaching methods at the Bauhaus, Black Mountain College and Yale Reveals Albers'' formative philosophies on art, life and the nature of perception through first-hand accounts of more than 150 students and colleagues over more than 40 years Features lush colour reproductions of Albers'' classic 1963 Interaction of Color taken from original press proofs

Anni Albers (1899-1994) llegó a entender perfectamente la esencia del arte textil y los fundamentos de su expresividad. Miembro pionero del taller de tejido de la Bauhaus, la escuela de diseño de Alemania en los años veinte, fue una de las artistas textiles mas destacadas del siglo XX.En 1963, en el Taller de Litografia Tamarind de Los Çngeles, se sintio atraida por el proceso de impresion y por el potencial creativo que ofrecia la litografia. A lo largo de las dos decadas siguientes, Anni Albers creo una serie de impresiones que lograban traducir su innovador trabajo textil a este nuevo medio, introdujo los colores mexicanos en sus trabajos y sus textiles se liberaron de las estrictas limitaciones de la trama que habian dominado su trabajo realizado en la Bauhaus. Exploro nuevas tecnicas con la litografia, la impresion en offset, los procesos fotograficos y la serigrafia, creando un cuerpo de obra que ahora se publica aqui en su totalidad por vez primera.

Josef Albers fue uno de los más influyentes creadores que la escuela Bauhaus ha dado al mundo del arte. En 1933, cuando la presión nazi obligo a la escuela a cerrar, se mudó a Estados Unidos . Tras una etapa de transicion comienza un proceso de experimentacion con los efectos opticos del color, que culminara en su mas conocida serie de cuadros:; Homenaje al Cuadrado. En ella utiliza el calculo de formas cada vez menores para ilustrar su terio de que los cambios de lugar, la forma y la luz alteran el color. Esta edicion impecable nos permitira descifrar el interes que Albers mostro por la ambiguedad de la percepcion; la discrepancia entre la informacion visual que la retina recibe y lo que la mente percibe, quedando claro que la identidad del color no reside en si mismo, sino que se establece por relacion con su entorno.

Josef Albers: To Open Eyes A fascinating study of the revolutionary painter and teacher, Josef Albers.Frederick A Horowitz and Brenda Danilowitz First book to focus on how the legendary artist/educator Josef Albers (1888-1976) influenced generations of artists, including Donald Judd, Robert Rauschenberg and Robert Mangold Incorporates rare archival material, including behind-the-scenes documentary photography of Albers' life and teaching methods at the Bauhaus, Black Mountain College and Yale Reveals Albers' formative philosophies on art, life and the nature of perception through first-hand accounts of more than 150 students and colleagues over more than 40 years Features lush colour reproductions of Albers' classic 1963 Interaction of Color taken from original press proofs Josef Albers (1888-1976) has long been admired for his progressive vision as an artist and designer who blurred distinctions between fine and applied art, but rarely has his influence as a teacher been examined with such depth and detail. The German-born artist/educator was a remarkable classroom performer whose colorful language, wit, and dramatic flair held his students spellbound and turned his lessons into high adventure. Whether at the Bauhaus in prewar Germany, Black Mountain College in rural North Carolina during the 1930s and 1940s, or at Yale in the 1950s, Albers-the-teacher was driven by one thing: the desire to open his students' eyes to a different way of perceiving art and, ultimately, life. The son of a house painter and decorator in Germany's northwest Ruhr region, Albers grew up surrounded by artisans and learned at an early age to paint, cut stone, and craft wood. Although his ambition had always been to become an artist, Albers entered teacher's training college at his father's insistence and spent his first professional year teaching six- to fourteen-year-olds in a single-classroom school. Later experience at the Koniglichen Kunstschule in Berlin's rough-and-tumble Alexanderplatz neighborhood and exposure to the city's hothouse cultural atmosphere inspired the young Albers to merge his love for art and education--a decision that would have an impact on generations of artists to come in both Europe and the U