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Josef Albers  To Open Eyes: The Bauhaus, Black Mountain College, and Yale

Josef Albers To Open Eyes: The Bauhaus, Black Mountain College, and Yale

Josef Albers  To Open Eyes: The Bauhaus, Black Mountain College, and Yale
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Josef Albers To Open Eyes: The Bauhaus, Black Mountain College, and Yale Paperback - 2009

by Horowitz, Frederick A. ; Brenda Danilowitz; Josef Albers

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  • Title Josef Albers To Open Eyes: The Bauhaus, Black Mountain College, and Yale
  • Author Horowitz, Frederick A. ; Brenda Danilowitz; Josef Albers
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition PAP/COM
  • Condition New
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Phaidon Press, London / New York
  • Publication date 2009
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 87309
  • ISBN 9780714849652 / 0714849650
  • Weight 3.5 lbs (1.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 11.5 x 10 x 1.13 in (29.21 x 25.40 x 2.87 cm)
  • Category Art & Art Instruction
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2011501930
  • Dewey Decimal Code 759.3
  • Quantity available 2

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Reader reviews for Josef Albers To Open Eyes: The Bauhaus, Black Mountain College, and Yale

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This volume provides a fascinating study of the revolutionary painter and teacher, Josef Albers (1888-1976). Albers began his teaching career in 1923, when Walter Gropius invited him to join the faculty of the Bauhaus in Germany, where he quickly replaced the school's standard course curriculum with his own innovative methods. After moving to the United States, he taught at Black Mountain College in North Carolina and then at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut until he retired in 1954. Overall, Albers's passionate commitment to teaching was matched only by his devotion to his own artistic development. While he is widely perceived as a strong-minded theoretician, he was, in fact, as this volume reveals, against rigid dogma and he encouraged his students to develop lively and original solutions to his many and varied design exercises. On their first day in his classroom, Albers's students were informed that his goal was to educate their eyes and that he was going to teach them how to think and to see, an agenda belied by the somewhat prosaic course names "Basic Drawing" and "Basic Design." Overall, as a thinker, writer (Albers's important volume The Interaction of Color was published in 1963 by Yale) and educator he has directly and indirectly influenced generations of established artists, including Robert Mangold, Robert Rauschenberg, and Donald Judd, among many others. This book provides not only a compelling study of a key figure of 20th century art, but also ponders what constitutes art and how it is made.

About the author

Brenda Danilowitz is the chief curator of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and has written extensively on Josef Albers for a variety of publications.

Frederick A. Horowitz, a former student of Josef Albers at Yale in the 1950s, taught art at Washtenaw Community College and the University of Michigan School of Art & Design, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He is the author of an art appreciation text, More Than You See/A Guide to Art.

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