Intersecting Colors : Josef Albers and His Contemporaries /

Josef Albers (1888-1976) was an artist, teacher, and seminal thinker on the perception of color. A member of the Bauhaus who fled to the U.S. in 1933, his ideas about how the mind understands color influenced generations of students, inspired countless artists, and anticipated the findings of neuros...

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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amherst, Massachusetts : Amherst College Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / David E. Little
  • Introduction / Vanja Malloy
  • A short history of Josef Albers's Interaction of color / Brenda Danilowitz
  • Explaining color in two 1963 publications / Sarah Lowengard
  • More than parallel lines: thoughts on Gestalt, Albers, and the Bauhaus / Karen Koehler
  • Juxtapositions and constellations: Albers and Op Art / Jeffrey Saletnik
  • Josef Albers and the science of seeing / Susan R. Barry
  • Contributors
  • Exhibition checklist.