Josef Albers: Formulation : Articulation (Thames & Hudson 2006) presents Josef Albers’s groundbreaking theory of colour, abstraction, and perception. Preface and introduction by T.G. Rosenthal.
First issued in 1972 as a limited edition set of prints, Formulation: Articulation is being published in book form for the first time. Josef Albers drew on over forty years’ work in a variety of mediawoodcuts, sandblasted glass pictures, and oil paintingsfor these poetic explorations of color and form. Created just four years before his death in 1976, the images can be seen as the summation of Albers’s creative life.
This book embodies all the elements of Albers’s lifetime preoccupation with abstraction, color, and perception. He draws the viewer into a dynamic relationship with his work, showing how color can have deceptive and unpredictable effects, depending on how it interacts with other colors. The order of the 127 illustrations was carefully chosen by Albers so that they can be examined and appreciated for their visual interaction or as beautiful works of art in their own right. They appear alone on the page, in pairs, or sometimes four together.
– Josef Albers: Formulation : Articulation (Thames & Hudson, 2006), book description
The text is in English. The book is lavishly illustrated with black-and-white photographs and art images.
Our copy in stock is in good condition. The pages are clean, no markings.except for an inscription on the first flyleaf. The binding is fine. The glueing of the binding is still firm. The dust jacket shows some small traces of shelf wear and use.
