Main entry:

Horowitz, Frederick A.

Title & Author:

Josef Albers : To Open Eyes : The Bauhaus, Black Mountain College, and Yale / Frederick A. Horowitz and Brenda Danilowitz.

Publication:

London ; New York : Phaidon, 2006.

Description:

288 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 30 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-276) and index.
[Table of Contents] -- Foreword / Nicholas Fox Weber -- Introduction / Frederick A. Horowitz -- I. Teaching Design: A Short History Of Josef Albers / Brenda Danilowitz -- II. Albers The Teacher / Frederick A. Horowitz -- Design -- Basic Drawing -- The Color Course -- The Painting Courses -- Albers's Teaching Legacy -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Research Sources -- Illustrations -- Index.

Summary:

"Josef Albers (1888-1976) has long been admired for his progressive vision as an artist and designer who blurred distinctions between fine and applied art, but rarely has his influence as a teacher been examined in depth and detail The German-born artist/educator was a remarkable classroom performer whose colorful language, wit, and dramatic flair held his students spellbound and turned his lessons into high adventure. Whether at the Bauhaus in prewar Germany, Black Mountain College in rural North Carolina during the 1930s and 1940s, or at Yale in the 1950s, Albers-the-teacher was driven by one thing: the desire to open his students' eyes to a different way of perceiving art and, ultimately, life. Josef Albers: To Open Eyes takes the reader through Alber's life in teaching-from his first years at the pioneering but politically fraught Bauhaus; to his 1933 emigration to the United States, where he and his wife Anni became founding members and teachers at the experimental start-up Black Mountain College; and again to his 1950 appointment to head up Yale University's newly restructured Department of Design. Throughout his forty years in education, Albers influenced everyone he encountered not, as one former student says, as a "tour guide of the world of art, but rather as a living embodiment of that world." -- Dust Jacket.

ISBN:

9780714845999 (hbk.)
071484599X (hbk.)
9780714849652 (pbk.)
0714849650 (pbk.)

Subject:

Albers, Josef.
Albers, Josef Criticism and interpretation.
Albers, Josef, 1888-1976.
Albers, Josef, 1888-1976 Career in teaching.
Bauhaus.
Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.)
Yale University. School of Design.
Art teachers Germany Biography.
Art teachers United States Biography.
Painters Germany Biography.
Painters United States Biography.
Professeurs d'art Allemagne Biographies.
Professeurs d'art États-Unis Biographies.
Peintres Allemagne Biographies.
Peintres États-Unis Biographies.
Painters
Art teachers
United States
Germany

Form/genre:

Biography
Biographies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Danilowitz, Brenda.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 264261
Call No.: BIB 195606
Status: Available