"Despite Straight Lines" by Josef Albers/Francois Bucher;MIT Press(Cambridge; 1977); 2nd (Revised)/1st; HB, VG(No DJ); NOT remainder, NOT bk club; HB-Quarterbound black/ white, binding tight, clean, original price band, bottom shelfworn, acetate wrap; 88pgs, 30 illust, interior bright/clean; Author of the influential "Interaction of Color," Josef Albers is best known for his extensive, influential research in colour theory as well as for the hundreds of paintings/prints in the series "Homage to the Square";Through his teachings he introduced a generation of American artists to the modernist concepts of Bauhaus, while his experimentation in color theory, interaction & geometric shapes inspired American art movements & artists such as Jacob Lawrence, R.Rauschenberg &S.Sillman; "Despite Straight Lines" contains an analysis of his graphic constructions by Francois Bucher & Albers' poetry

Josef Albers: Despite straight lines : an analysis of his graphic constructions

Albers, Josef

MIT Press]

Despite Straight Lines

Arts & Photography

Graphic Design

The MIT Press

Interaction of color

This is a great old school book on basics of color interactions and shapes. It appears to be on a theoretical level.

Interaction of Color

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Yale University Press

An experimental approach to the study and teaching of color is comprised of exercises in seeing color action and feeling color relatedness before arriving at color theory

Interaction of Color: Text of the Original Edition With Revised Plate Section

Yale Univ Pr

Interaction of Color: Revised Edition

Interaction of Color, a masterwork of one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, is a brilliant display and explanation of the characteristics of color and the conditions under which certain optical phenomena occur. Originally published in book form, Interaction of Color is now available for the first time in a CD-ROM edition, extending Josef Albers`s color teaching into the realm of the computer and revealing a range of miraculous color effects in a new medium, including the way that one color can appear as two and how disparate colors can appear alike in varying settings.

Interaction of Color: CD-ROM Edition, Version 1.1 for Macintosh Computers

Josef Albers’s 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’s unique ideas of color 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 color plates, Interaction of Color first appeared in paperback in 1971, featuring ten representative color studies chosen by Albers. The paperback has remained in print ever since and is one of the most influential resources on color for countless readers. This new paperback edition presents a significantly expanded selection of more than thirty color studies alongside Albers’s original unabridged text, demonstrating such principles as color relativity, intensity, and temperature; vibrating and vanishing boundaries; and the illusions of transparency and reversed grounds. Now available in a larger format and with enhanced production values, this expanded edition celebrates the unique authority of Albers’s contribution to color theory and brings the artist’s iconic study to an eager new generation of readers.

Interaction of Color: Revised and Expanded Edition

History & Criticism

In Poems and Drawings, first published in 1958, Josef Albers attempted to penetrate the meaning of art and life by the simplest, most disciplined means. This project was extremely important to Albers, who used its format to create complementary forms in both word and line that appear deceptively simple until they begin to disclose the author’s insights into nature, art, and life. Conceived as a kind of artist’s book, the publication features 22 of Albers’s refined line drawings alongside the same number of his original poemseach appearing in both English and German. Printed initially in a limited edition and long out of print, this new edition of Poems and Drawings replicates Albers’s original book design and includes four previously unpublished poems that reveal playful and tender details behind Albers’s personal relationships, along with a new introduction by Nicholas Fox Weber. For admirers of Albers, Poems and Drawings will provide a closer look at a celebrated artist who was also an affectionate and articulate writer.

Poems and Drawings

Weber, Nicholas Fox

Individual Artists

A luxurious new 2-volume edition of the full set of original plates, text, and commentary One of the most influential books on color ever published, Josef Albers’s Interaction of Color is a masterwork. Originally issued in 1963 as a limited-edition set of commentary and 150 silkscreened color plates, the book introduced generations of students, artists, designers, and collectors to Albers’s unique approach to complex principles. While the original publication has long been out of print, this beautiful new edition now brings Interaction back into classrooms, studios, and onto bookshelves, where it will find an eager new audience. Lavishly produced as a two volume slipcased set, this book replicates Albers’s revolutionary exercises, explaining concepts such as color relativity and vibrating and vanishing boundaries through the use of color, shape, die-cut forms, and movable flaps that illustrate his astonishing demonstrations of the changing and relative nature of color. Also included for the first time are new studies from the Albers archive, produced by the artist’s students in the early 1960s. A celebration of Albers’s legendary achievements, this beautiful publication is an essential addition to any serious art library.

Interaction of Color: New Complete Edition

The 50th anniversary edition of a classic text, featuring an expanded selection of color studies Josef Albers’s Interaction of Color is a masterwork in art education. Conceived as a handbook and teaching aid for artists, instructors, and students, this influential book presents Albers’s singular explanation of complex color theory principles. Originally published by Yale University Press in 1963 as a limited silkscreen edition with 150 color plates, Interaction of Color first appeared in paperback in 1971, featuring ten color studies chosen by Albers, and has remained in print ever since. With over a quarter of a million copies sold in its various editions since 1963, Interaction of Color remains an essential resource on color, as pioneering today as when Albers first created it. Fifty years after Interaction’s initial publication, this new edition presents a significantly expanded selection of close to sixty color studies alongside Albers’s original text, demonstrating such principles as color relativity, intensity, and temperature; vibrating and vanishing boundaries; and the illusion of transparency and reversed grounds. A celebration of the longevity and unique authority of Albers’s contribution, this landmark edition will find new audiences in studios and classrooms around the world.

Interaction of Color: 50th Anniversary Edition

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