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.

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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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