Josef Albers: Sublime Optics
Publisher: The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation/Fondazione Stelline
Publication Date: 2013
Edited by Nicholas Fox Weber. Texts by PierCarla Delpiano, Nicholas Fox Weber, Nick Murphy, Paolo Papone, Marco Pierini, Colm Tóibín, and Julie Agoos
The spiritual elements in Josef Albers’s work are considered in this beautifully illustrated catalogue for an exhibition. The book includes large-scale reproductions of rare early drawings, photographs, stained-glass assemblages, Structural Constellations, and a range of abstract paintings, including examples from his Homage to the Square series. Essays by Nicholas Fox Weber, Paolo Papone, Marco Pieri, Colm Tóibín, and Julie Agoos provide context for Albers’s relationship to Catholicism (in which he was raised) and his sense of the mystical.
Details
Publisher: The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation/Fondazione Stelline
Artist: Josef Albers
Contributors: PierCarla Delpiano, Nick Murphy, Paolo Papone, Marco Pierini, Colm Toibin, Julie Agoos
Publication Date: 2013
ISBN: 0000000000079
Retail: $50 | £45
Status: Not Available
Binding: Hardcover
Dimensions: 9 1/2 x 11 in (24.1 x 27.9 cm)
Pages: 240
Reproductions: 86 color, 12 b&w
Artist and Contributors
Josef Albers
Josef Albers (1888–1976) is considered one of the most influential abstract painters of the twentieth century, as well as an important designer and educator. Albers’s artistic career, which bridged European and American Modernism, consisted mainly of a tightly focused investigation into the perceptual properties of color and spatial relationships.
PierCarla Delpiano
Nick Murphy
Paolo Papone
Marco Pierini
Colm Toibin
Julie Agoos
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