Josef Albers' "Interaction of Color" is a masterwork in twentieth-century art education. Conceived as a handbook and teaching aid for artists, instructors, and students, this timeless book presents Albers' unique ideas of colour experimentation in a way that is valuable to specialists as well as to a larger audience. Originally published by Yale University Press in 1963 as a limited silkscreen edition with 150 colour plates, "Interaction of Color" first appeared in paperback in 1971, featuring ten representative colour studies chosen by Albers. The paperback has remained in print ever since and remains one of the most influential resources on colour for countless readers. This new paperback edition presents a significantly expanded selection of more than thirty colour studies alongside Albers' original unabridged text, demonstrating such principles as colour relativity, intensity, and temperature; vibrating and vanishing boundaries; and the illusion of transparency and reversed grounds. In a larger format and with enhanced production values, this expanded edition celebrates the unique authority of Albers' contribution to colour theory and brings the artist's iconic study to an eager new generation of readers.
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'[An] invaluable guide to seeing...' -- Andrew Mead, Architects Journal, June 2006
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Josef Albers, one of the most influential artist-educators of the twentieth century, was a member of the Bauhaus group in Germany during the 1920s. In 1933 he came to the United States, where he taught at Black Mountain College for sixteen years. In 1950 he joined the faculty at Yale University as chairman of the Department of Design. The recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees, Albers was the first living artist ever to be given a solo retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of art in New York. Nicholas Fox Weber is Executive Director of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
By K. M. Keane
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this for me is a work book, a book with exercises that one has to work through to get the knowledge it presents.
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One needs a fairly wide selection of coloured papers to do the exercises. But that shouldn't be too hard to fint. Get coloured papers for kids and add some samples from magazines - there you are.
A good thing about Albers examples, is he recommends using papers, not paint. this means you don't have to be a painter to understand and work with. Albers colour theory
Excellent!
One needs a fairly wide selection of coloured papers to do the exercises. But that shouldn't be too hard to fint. Get coloured papers for kids and add some samples from magazines - there you are.
A good thing about Albers examples, is he recommends using papers, not paint. this means you don't have to be a painter to understand and work with. Albers colour theory
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By CharlieByrd
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I purchased this book having heard much hype about it from fellow artists over the years, however I found it quite hard to understand some concepts and found myself re-reading many chapters in order to make sense of them. The book assumes a lot of previous colour theory knowledge on the part of the reader, which is understandable at the time it was written, but for artists today that are not taught colour theory in such depth at universities it can be tough going, but I advise you to persist. In order to get the most you can out of the book, it is best to do all of the exercises. These are done with coloured paper instead of paint,(make sure you have a large selection!) which really trains your eye to see colour and am now converted on using coloured paper for working out ideas beforehand. It would help if the illustrations were next to each chapter rather then all being placed at the end, as you will need to look at them to get a better idea of what Albers is referring to. So, it's best to flick to the illustration as soon as you've read each chapter.
On the whole, it is an important book for any artist interested in colour theory, but for beginners I would recommend starting off with Betty Edwards:Color: A Course in Mastering the Art of Mixing Colors 2004,which really helped me get my head around colour theory and who has used this book in formulating her course.
On the whole, it is an important book for any artist interested in colour theory, but for beginners I would recommend starting off with Betty Edwards:Color: A Course in Mastering the Art of Mixing Colors 2004,which really helped me get my head around colour theory and who has used this book in formulating her course.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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A very useful and fascinating insight to the teaching of Albers. Well illustrated with examples that show how colours interact with each other.Text is kept to a minimum and plenty of good colour reproductions.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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This is a classic book in color theory. Recommended for anyone who wants to understand how color works. A must for any artist's library.
By Jscambler
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I would recommend this book to any person who was interested in colours and matching them together. All artists would benifit from reading this book if they are beginners or if they are very good artists themselves.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I am enjoying dipping in and out of this book,it's all I expected it to be and more.I would reccomend it to anyone interested in painting.
0 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By Giedre
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The books is written as if technology never existed and colour mixing and matching was not possible digitally. I was interested in interaction and emotional effect of colour combinations but instead I got instructions of how to paint bits of paper.
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