Author: Horowitz, Frederick A. and Brenda Danilowitz
Title: Josef Albers: To Open Eyes: The Bauhaus, Black Mountain College, and Yale
Description: London / New York, Phaidon, 2006. Hardcover. Blue paper over boards; BW pictorial dj.; BW pictorial endpapers; 287 pp.; Profusely illustrated in bw and color. Explores in depth Josef Albers's teaching style, from his years at the Bauhaus, to Black Mountain College in North Carolina, to Yale University; Informative, fascinating, and well illustrated [Table of Contents] -- Foreword / Nicholas Fox Weber -- Introduction / Frederick A. Horowitz -- I. Teaching Design: A Short History Of Josef Albers / Brenda Danilowitz -- II. Albers The Teacher / Frederick A. Horowitz -- Design -- Basic Drawing -- The Color Course -- The Painting Courses -- Albers's Teaching Legacy -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Research Sources -- Illustrations -- Index. "Josef Albers (1888-1976) has long been admired for his progressive vision as an artist and designer who blurred distinctions between fine and applied art, but rarely has his influence as a teacher been examined in depth and detail The German-born artist/educator was a remarkable classroom performer whose colorful language, wit, and dramatic flair held his students spellbound and turned his lessons into high adventure. Whether at the Bauhaus in prewar Germany, Black Mountain College in rural North Carolina during the 1930s and 1940s, or at Yale in the 1950s, Albers-the-teacher was driven by one thing: the desire to open his students' eyes to a different way of perceiving art and, ultimately, life. Josef Albers: To Open Eyes takes the reader through Alber's life in teaching-from his first years at the pioneering but politically fraught Bauhaus; to his 1933 emigration to the United States, where he and his wife Anni became founding members and teachers at the experimental start-up Black Mountain College; and again to his 1950 appointment to head up Yale University's newly restructured Department of Design. Throughout his forty years in education, Albers influenced everyone he encountered not, as one former student says, as a "tour guide of the world of art, but rather as a living embodiment of that world." --. VG/VG dustjacket is in mylar. Exlibrary with small label at base of dustjacket, ownership stamp at top text block, labels inside rear cover. Very clean copy overall .

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