Anni Albers (1899 - 1994) was one of the most influential textile designers of the 20th century. Born in Berlin, in 1922 she became a student at the Bauhaus in Weimar, where she met her husband, Josef Albers. From 1933 to 1949 Albers taught at Black Mountain College. The fifteen essays gathered here illustrate Anni Albers's concept of design as the pursuit of wholeness -- the coalition of form answering practical needs and form answering aesthetic needs. This beautifully illustrated book addresses the artistic and practical concerns of modern design and considers the ever-changing role of the...
Anni Albers (1899 - 1994) was one of the most influential textile designers of the 20th century. Born in Berlin, in 1922 she became a student at the B...
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...
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 t...
