Interacting with Color

A Practical Guide to Josef Albers’s Color Experiments

Fritz Horstman, Nicholas Fox Weber

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Yale University Press
15 May 2024

Art techniques & principles

The essence of Josef Albers's Interaction of Color in a format that engages learners of all ages and levels and encourages a hands-on approach

Interaction of Color is often presented as an overarching theory of color, but it is actually a method of learning how to better see and understand color—many of the color exercises illustrated in Interaction of Color were devised by Albers's students: cutting and pasting, looking, pondering, and learning. This workbook companion is a teaching tool designed to enable readers to engage in the kinds of tactile creativity and exploration that characterized Albers's own classroom.

Focusing on eight of the most important lessons in Interaction of Color, this book invites readers to learn by doing, using only simple materials. Core instructions for each exercise are enhanced by additional tips, references to Albers's original text and illustrations, and stories about how Albers presented the ideas in class. The book and exercises are sufficiently nuanced to challenge and inspire seasoned artists, designers, and educators while also being readily accessible to younger readers and less-experienced practitioners.

By: Fritz Horstman
Foreword by: Nicholas Fox Weber
Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9780300272437
ISBN 10: 030027243X
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 15 May 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Fritz Horstman is education director of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation.

Reviews for Interacting with Color: A Practical Guide to Josef Albers’s Color Experiments

“The purpose of Fritz Horstman’s new book is thus twofold: to alert the average reader to the humanity of Albers’s teaching and, in doing so, quietly to redraw the man himself.”—Charles Darwent, Times Literary Supplement “Probably no-one is more familiar than Fritz Horstman with Albers’s Interaction of Color. He demystifies the book, opening to the general reader joys long reserved for artists.”—Charles Darwent, author of Josef Albers: Life and Work