Josef Albers - Life and Work

Author(s): Charles Darwent

Art | Artist Monographs | Design

Drawing on extensive unpublished archival writings, documents, and illustrations, this is the first full-scale biography of one of the 20th-century's great artists.
In his accessible study of the "whole" Albers, Charles Darwent combats the fables while telling the fascinating story of an artist, friend, and intellectual. Among Albers's unpublished papers are letters from friends John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Serra, and Eva Hesse, as well as fans and collectors ranging from the composer Virgil Thomson to the cartoonist Saul Steinberg. If his network of influence was surprisingly wide, so too, were his interests.
He started life at the Bauhaus as a glass-maker and went on to create fonts, to run their famous wallpaper workshop, and to make furniture whose designs are still in production eighty years later. He pioneered the study of color at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, and chaired the design department at Yale University. While books have been written about Albers for specialist audiences, this new volume fulfills the clear need for a more general study. 

Review: 'Lively, lucid, compelling and revealing, offering fascinating insights into Albers - as artist and teacher - while convincingly reframing his place at the heart of modernism on both sides of the Atlantic' - Frances Morris, Director of Tate Modern


Contents: 1. Homages to the Square * 2. Am Anfang * 3. Berlin and Munich * 4. Weimar * 5. Dessau and Berlin * 6. Black Mountain College * 7. Yale * 8. Beginnings and Ends


 


Author Biography: Charles Darwent is an art critic and reviewer. He contributes regularly to the Guardian, the Art Newspaper and Art Review and was the Independent on Sunday's chief art critic from 1999 to 2013. He appeared in the Netflix series, Raiders of the Lost Art, from 2014 to 2016. Darwent's publications include Mondrian in London and The Drawing Book: A Survey of Drawing. He spent five years researching Josef Albers at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Connecticut.

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General Fields

  • : 9780500519103
  • : Thames & Hudson
  • : Thames & Hudson
  • : 1.07
  • : November 2018
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  • : Charles Darwent
  • : Hardback
  • : 1
  • : English
  • : 709.2
  • : 400