Interactions of Color: Text of the Original Edition with Selected Plates

Albers, Josef

ISBN 10: 0300014732 / ISBN 13: 9780300014730

Published by Yale University Press, New Haven, 1972

About this Item

Octavo. Softcover. Illustrated wraps. xiv, 74 pages illustrations (some color) 22 cm. Color recollection -- visual memory -- Color reading and contexture -- Why color paper -- instead of pigment and paint -- A color has many faces -- the relativity of color -- Lighter and/or darker -- light intensity, lightness ; Gradation studies -- new presentations ; Color intensity -- brightness -- 1 color appears as 2 -- looking like the reversed grounds -- 2 different colors look alike -- subtraction of color -- Why color deception? -- after-image, simultaneous contrast -- Color mixture in paper -- illusion of transparence -- Factual mixtures -- additive and subtractive -- Transparence and space-illusion ; Color boundaries and plastic action -- Optical mixture -- after-image revised -- The Bezold effect -- Color intervals and transformation -- The middle mixture again -- intersecting colors -- Color juxtaposition -- harmony -- quantity -- Film color and volume color -- 2 natural effects -- Free studies -- a challenge to imagination ; Stripes -- restricted juxtaposition ; Fall leaf studies -- an American discovery -- The masters -- color instrumentation -- The Weber -- Fechner law -- the measure in mixture -- From color temperature to humidity in color -- Vibrating boundaries -- enforced contours -- Equal light intensity -- vanishing boundaries -- Color theories -- color systems -- On teaching color -- some color terms ; Explanation of color terms ; Variants versus variety -- In lieu of a bibliography -- my first collaborators. VG-. Light edge wear and toning to wraps.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Interactions of Color: Text of the Original Edition with Selected Plates
• Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven
• Publication Date: 1972
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300014732
• ISBN 13: 9780300014730
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: Fourth printing.
• Seller catalogs:
  • European Artists

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Synopsis

The masterworks of one of the most influential teacher-artists of the twentieth century, originally published as a limited, boxed edition in 1963, was conceived as a guide and teaching aid for artists, instructors, and students. A paperbound edition, containing the unabridged text of the original edition, plus ten representative color plates, chosen from the original silk-screen reproductions and printed by offset lithography, was published in 1971. Since those color plates have now been worn out in repeated reprintings, Mr. Albers has selected ten different color studies, with new comments, for this revised edition.
"The text of "Interaction of Color" provides the careful reader with the content of Josef Albers' famous color course. His teaching is based on learning by direct perception, and not by theories or color systems. There are many books on color on the market, but no one combines eyesight with such profound insight as Josef Albers does in "Interaction of Color.""--Hannes Beckmann
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"The publication of this famous book in paperback is an event. . . . It is clearly written and easy to understand. . . . This book ought to be owned by any serious student or teacher, regardless of the kind of painting he does."--"The Artist
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Review

'[An] invaluable guide to seeing...' -- Andrew Mead, Architects Journal, June 2006