Josef Albers: Life and Work

In his accessible study of the “whole” Albers, Charles Darwent combats the fables while telling the fascinating story of an artist, friend and intellectual.

Among Albers’s unpublished papers are letters from friends John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Serra and Eva Hesse, as well as fans and collectors ranging from the composer Virgil Thomson to the cartoonist Saul Steinberg.

If his network of influence was surprisingly wide, so too, were his interests. He started life at the Bauhaus as a glass-maker and went on to create fonts, to run their famous wallpaper workshop and to make furniture whose designs are still in production 80 years later. He pioneered the study of colour at Black Mountain College in North Carolina and chaired the design department at Yale University. While books have been written about Albers for specialist audiences, this new volume fulfils the clear need for a more general study.

185 illustrations

Hardcover

400 pages

Dimensions: height 24.9 x width 15.2 x depth 3.8

ISBN: 9780500519103

Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Published November 20, 2018"