05ALBERS’S INTERACTION OF COLOR
The seminal text on color in context by Josef Albers published in 1961
Trained as an art teacher, Josef Albers was a student and then a teacher at the Bauhaus in the 1920s and early 1930s. At the Bauhaus his teaching methods included “ . . . construction experiments with straw, matchboxes, paper and wire.” Following the closure of the Bauhaus in 1933, Josef and his wife, Anni, left Germany to teach at the newly formed Black Mountain College in North Carolina.
His course at the college focused on color phenomena rather than on mixing and used paper instead of paint as the medium of choice. Josef and Anni Albers ...
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