Josef Albers: To Open Eyes (F A GENERAL)
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,Individual Artists
Josef Albers: To Open Eyes (F A GENERAL) Details
This title reveals Albers' formative philosophies on art, life and the nature of perception through first-hand accounts of more than 150 students and colleagues over more than 40 years.
Reviews
'Josef Albers: To Open Eyes', by Frederick A. Horowitz and Brenda Danilowitz is about Albers teaching years. It's a bit like Nicholas Fox Weber's 'The Bauhaus Group: Six Masters of Modernism' in that you get the real history of the political stew from the Bauhaus to Black Mountain Collage and Yale...the frustrations and internal battles. Brenda Danilowitz is the chief curator of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in CT. Frederick A. Horowitz, a brilliant writer and former student of Albers, goes into some depth on his amazing classroom teaching style and he covers the content of the courses clearly. As an artist and painter of many decades I especially appreciate the analysis of his color studies. P. 215: “These effects enlarged the understanding of color behavior and reinforced the lesson that our experience of color is essentially perceptual, and that it’s the perceptual results that count.” This book is a valued addition to my studio library of artists monographs.
