Josef Albers (1888-1976) was an artist, a member of the Bauhaus, and a refugee who fled with his family to the United States in 1933. Taking up a teaching position first at Black Mountain College in North Carolina and later, in 1949, at the Yale Art School, Albers became immenesly influential to a generation of artists as he engaged them in an interactive pedagogy, shaped by his exposure to the writings of gestalt psychologists, directed toward a holistic understanding of the dynamics of color. Albers's own work as an artist anticipated and in some ways influenced the op art movement, and...