Title & Author:

One and one is four : the Bauhaus photocollages of Josef Albers / Sarah Hermanson Meister ; with additional texts by Elizabeth Otto and Lee Ann Daffner.

Publication:

New York, NY : The Museum of Modern Art, [2016]
©2016

Description:

140 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Notes:
Accompanies an exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, November 23, 2016-April 2, 2017--Museum of Modern Art, New York website (viewed on November 14, 2016).
"In 2015, the Museum acquired 10 photocollages by Albers--adding to the two donated by the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation almost three decades ago--making its collection the most significant anywhere outside the Foundation."--Museum of Modern Art, New York website (viewed on November 14, 2016).
Includes bibliographical references.
Josef Albers : an open mind for the newer and nearer / Sarah Hermanson Meister -- Plates -- Fragments of the world seen like this : photocollage at the Bauhaus / Elizabeth Otto -- Josef Albers's Bauhaus photocollages : a technical analysis / Lee Ann Daffner -- Photos as photography and photos as art / Josef Albers.

Summary:

Josef Albers is widely recognized as a crucial figure in 20th-century art, both as an independent practitioner and as a teacher at the Bauhaus, Black Mountain College and Yale University. Albers made paintings, drawings and prints and designed furniture and typography. Arguably the least familiar aspect of his extraordinary career was his inventive engagement with photography, only widely known after his death, including his production of approximately 70 photocollages that feature photographs he made at the Bauhaus between 1928 and 1932. These works anticipate concerns that he would pursue throughout his career--the effects of adjacency, the exploration of color through white, black and gray, and the delicate balance between handcraft and industrial and mechanical form. Albers's photographs were first shown at MoMA in a modest exhibition in 1987, when the Museum acquired two photocollages. In 2015 the Museum acquired ten additional photocollages, making its collection the most substantial anywhere outside the Albers Foundation. This publication reproduces each of the photocollages Albers made at the Bauhaus, presenting the scope of this achievement for the first time. An introductory essay by Sarah Hermanson Meister situates them within the contexts of modernist photography, the Bauhaus ethos and of Albers's own practice--David Zwirner Books (viewed on November 11, 2016).

Resources:
View record details on Penryn Campus Library Catalogue

ISBN:

9781633450172 (hardback)
1633450171 (hardback)

Subject:

Albers, Josef Exhibitions.
Albers, Josef
Bauhaus Exhibitions.
Bauhaus Expositions.
Bauhaus
Collage Musikgruppe
Photocollage Exhibitions.
Photography, Artistic Exhibitions.
Photocollage Expositions.
Photographie artistique Expositions.
ART European.
ART History Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
ART Individual Artists Monographs.
PHOTOGRAPHY Individual Photographers Monographs.
Photography.
Photocollage
Photography, Artistic
Fotografie

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Meister, Sarah Hermanson, author.
Otto, Elizabeth, 1970- writer of added commentary.
Daffner, Lee Ann, writer of added commentary.
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), host institution.
Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, sponsoring body.

Bauhaus photocollages of Josef Albers

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293772
Call No.: BIB 238946
Status: Available