Antiquariat Michael Kühn
ALBERS, Josef. 
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Interaction of Color (Die Wechselbeziehung der Farbe). Text- and Commentary Vol. Starnberg, Keller /Albers, 1973. Folio (370 x 275 mm) Cloth slipcase containing text volume (cloth, 80pp.) and cloth chemise - style box with concordance to plates (wraps, 48pp) and eighty folders (13 x 10 inches, opening to 13 x 20 inches) containing the plates. Plates are printed in as many as twenty colors, with a combination of silk-screen (serigraph), four color separation and photo - offset processes. The box and spines in mauve, the internals are fine and very fresh. The Box is rubbed and one hinge little damaged, else a very fine set of the German edition.
First German edition of Albers’ famous color theory, one of the most important artist books of the 20th century. A major twentieth-century American illustrated book, which has now become quite rare. The text and eighty silk-screened plates form a summation of Albers' teachings in colour relatedness. He demonstrates the facets of colour changes, illusions, and influences produced by the multiple „interactions of color.“ An indispensable document of modern American art, issued in an unspecified limited edition. Josef Albers, one of the most influential artist - edu-cators of the twentieth century, was a member of the Bauhaus group in Germany during the 1920s. In 1933 he came to the United States, where he taught at Black Mountain College for sixteen years. In 1950 he joined the faculty at Yale University as chairman of the department of design. Albers was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1968 and was professor emeritus of art at Yale until his death in 1976. First German edition of Albers’ famous color theory, published ten years after the original edition (Yale University Press, 1963), supervised in print by Josef Albers himself. The 80 folding plates contain one or sometimes several color serigraphs or color offsets, some with fold-out color elements, illustrating Albers’ theories, such as the „Bezold effect“, the application of which led him to his „Homage-to-the-Square“ paintings. Designed by Norman Ives, who was later also responsible for Albers’ „Formulation : Articulation“. Loosely enclosed is a promotional flap card with Albers’ facsimile letter of thanks congratulating the publisher on the „excellent reproductions of the color studies“ and especially praising the washable cassette. - Die Lesbarkeit der Kunst 48 - Saur II, 48 - Cf. Danilowitz p. 20. Color, color theory, bauhaus
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