Brenda Danilowitz

A superb facsimile of the only known notebook of legendary artist Anni Albers, this publication offers insight into the methodology of a modern master.

Beginning in 1970, Anni Albers filled her graph-paper notebook regularly until 1980. This rare and previously unpublished document of her working process contains intricate drawings for her large body of graphic work, as well as studies for her late knot drawings. The notebook follows Albers's deliberations and progression as a draftsman in their original form. It reveals the way she went about making complex patterns, exploring them piece by piece, line by line in a visually dramatic and mysteriously beautiful series of geometric arrangements.

An afterword by Brenda Danilowitz, Chief Curator of The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, contextualizes the notebook and explores the role studies played in the development of her work.… (mehr)

Primer libro que se centra en cómo el legendario artista / educador Josef Albers (1888-1976) influyó en generaciones de artistas, incluyendo a Donald Judd, Robert Rauschenberg y Robert Mangold, ahora disponible en edición de bolsillo incorpora material de archivo rara, incluyendo detrás de las escenas de la fotografía documental de Albers vida y té métodos ching en la Bauhaus, Negro Mountain College y Yale Revela Albers filosofías formativas sobre el arte, la vida y la naturaleza de la percepción a través de relatos de primera mano de más de 150 estudiantes y colegas durante más de 40 años destaca por su frondosa reproducciones en color de clásico 1963 Interacción Albers 'de color tomadas de pruebas de imprenta originales… (mehr)