Interaction of Color; Revised and Expanded Edition,9780300115956

Interaction of Color; Revised and Expanded Edition

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Edition: Revised
ISBN13: 9780300115956
ISBN10: 0300115954
Format: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 2006-05-15
Publisher(s): Yale University Press
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Summary

Josef Albers'sInteraction of Coloris a masterwork in twentieth-century art education. Conceived as a handbook and teaching aid for artists, instructors, and students, this timeless book presents Albers's unique ideas of color experimentation in a way that is valuable to specialists as well as to a larger audience. Originally published by Yale University Press in 1963 as a limited silkscreen edition with 150 color plates,Interaction of Colorfirst appeared in paperback in 1971, featuring ten representative color studies chosen by Albers. The paperback has remained in print ever since and is one of the most influential resources on color for countless readers. This new paperback edition presents a significantly expanded selection of more than thirty color studies alongside Albers's original unabridged text, demonstrating such principles as color relativity, intensity, and temperature; vibrating and vanishing boundaries; and the illusions of transparency and reversed grounds. Now available in a larger format and with enhanced production values, this expanded edition celebrates the unique authority of Albers's contribution to color theory and brings the artist's iconic study to an eager new generation of readers.

Author Biography

Josef Albers, one of the most influential artist-educators of the twentieth century, was a member of the Bauhaus group in Germany during the 1920s. In 1933 he came to the United States, where he taught at Black Mountain College for sixteen years. In 1950 he joined the faculty at Yale University as chairman of the Department of Design. The recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees, Albers was the first living artist ever to be given a solo retrospective at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Nicholas Fox Weber is Executive Director of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix
Nicholas Fox Weber
Introduction 1(2)
Color recollection---visual memory
3(1)
Color reading and contexture
4(2)
Why color paper---instead of pigment and paint
6(2)
A color has many faces---the relativity of color
8(4)
Lighter and/or darker---light intensity, lightness
12(6)
Gradation studies---new presentations Color intensity---brightness
1 color appears as 2---looking like the reversed grounds
18(2)
2 different colors look alike---subtraction of color
20(2)
Why color deception?---after-image, simultaneous contrast
22(2)
Color mixture in paper---illusion of transparence
24(3)
Factual mixtures---additive and subtractive
27(2)
Transparence and space-illusion
29(4)
Color boundaries and plastic action
Optical mixture---after-image revised
33(1)
The Bezold Effect
33(1)
Color intervals and transformation
34(3)
The middle mixture again---intersecting colors
37(2)
Color juxtaposition---harmony---quantity
39(6)
Film color and volume color---2 natural effects
45(2)
Free studies---a challenge to imagination
47(5)
Stripes---restricted juxtaposition
Fall leaf studies---an American discovery
The Masters---color instrumentation
52(2)
The Weber-Fechner Law---the measure in mixture
54(5)
From color temperature to humidity in color
59(2)
Vibrating boundaries---enforced contours
61(1)
Equal light intensity---vanishing boundaries
62(3)
Color theories---color systems
65(3)
On teaching color---some color terms
68(6)
Explanation of color terms
Variants versus variety
In lieu of a bibliography---my first collaborators
74(1)
Plates and commentary 75

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