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Josef Albers

Discovery and Invention – The Early Graphic Works

David Cleaton-Roberts,  Brenda Danilowitz,  Jeannette Redensek

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English
Art / Books
21 April 2022
Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus
Josef Albers was one of the twentieth century's most influential artists, teachers, and theorists of art. Alongside teaching at the Bauhaus school in Germany and later at Black Mountain College and Yale University in the United States, he created seminal work in diverse mediums from painting and printmaking to furniture design and stained glass. His lifelong explorations into form, vision, and the processes of making art led to his ground-breaking Homage to the Square paintings and confirmed his reputation as a leading proponent of abstraction.

This publication considers Albers's early development as an artist, beginning with the pre-Bauhaus years when he worked as an elementary-school teacher in his native Bottrop in north-west Germany, while sketching the landscape and architecture of his home town and studying courses in art by night. Focusing on his prints and other works on paper, the book reveals not only the unappreciated naturalistic origins of his art, but also his ongoing interest in producing organic, surrealistic forms alongside the geometric abstraction for which he is best known. It presents dozens of prints, paintings, and drawings from the first half of his career, as well as previously unseen photographs of the artist at work and on research trips to the ancient sites of Mexico where he found important sources of inspiration for his art and theories. With texts by two recognized Albers scholars, this volume offers a fresh and surprising view of a celebrated pioneer of modernism.
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Imprint:   Art / Books
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 260mm,  Width: 200mm, 
Weight:   920g
ISBN:   9781908970572
ISBN 10:   190897057X
Pages:   160
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

David Cleaton-Roberts is a co-director of Cristea Roberts Gallery. Brenda Danilowitz is an art historian and Chief Curator at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. She is the author and editor of numerous books and essays on the work of Josef and Anni Albers, and has organized exhibitions of their work in the United States, Europe, Mexico, Peru, and Brazil. Jeannette Redensek is an art historian and Research Curator and Josef Albers Catalogue Raisonné Director at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation.

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