Josef Albers - Life and Work (Darwent Charles)(Pevná vazba)

The first full-scale biography of one of the 20th century's great makers, theorists and painters
While Josef Albers’ Bauhaus colleagues Klee and Kandinsky are household names, Albers himself has remained inscrutable. He is best known as the painter of the Homages to the Square, ‘the dish I serve my craziness about colour in’ – a series of over two thousand tightly controlled experiments in the interaction of colour. Yet he did not begin these pictures until he was in his sixties, already several decades into his career as an artist, maker and theorist, much of it pursued in the United States following the Nazi dissolution of the Bauhaus in 1933.
The son of a painter and decorator, Albers was fascinated by the everyday: his early Homages are in unmixed oil paint applied to fibreboard using a palette knife, the outer squares scumbled, their insistently handmade surfaces belying the series’ apparent austerity. They are stark, but also deeply romantic.
Misunderstanding of the Homages reflects a wider misreading of Albers’ life and work. He was married to the influential weaver and textile artist Anni Albers, and his papers include letters from fellow artists John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Serra and Eva Hesse; colleagues such as Buckminster Fuller and Philip Johnson; and fans and collectors ranging from the composer Virgil Thomson to the cartoonist Saul Steinberg. If his network of influence was surprisingly wide, so, too, were his interests.
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