Research Catalog

Title

Interaction of color / Josef Albers ; [foreword by Nicholas Fox Weber].

Author

Albers, Josef.

Publication

New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, ©2006.

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Details

Description

xi, 145 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Summary

Josef Albers' "Interaction of Color" is a masterwork in twentieth-century art education. Conceived as a handbook and teaching aid for artists, instructors, and students, this timeless book presents Albers' unique ideas of colour 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 colour plates, "Interaction of Color" first appeared in paperback in 1971, featuring ten representative colour studies chosen by Albers. The paperback has remained in print ever since and remains one of the most influential resources on colour for countless readers. This new paperback edition presents a significantly expanded selection of more than thirty colour studies alongside Albers' original unabridged text, demonstrating such principles as colour relativity, intensity, and temperature; vibrating and vanishing boundaries; and the illusion of transparency and reversed grounds. In a larger format and with enhanced production values, this expanded edition celebrates the unique authority of Albers' contribution to colour theory and brings the artist's iconic study to an eager new generation of readers.

Subject

• Color > Study and teaching
• Couleur > Étude et enseignement
• Color > Study and teaching
• Farbenlehre
• Farbensehen

Note

• "Revised and expanded paperback edition"--Title page verso.
• Original ed.: 1963.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Color recollection : visual memory -- 2. Color reading and contexture -- 3. Why color paper : instead of pigment and paint -- 4. A color has many faces : the relativity of color -- 5. Lighter and / or darker : light intensity, lightness -- Gradation studies : new presentations -- Color intensity : brightness -- 6. 1 color appears as 2 : looking like the reversed grounds -- 7. 2 different colors look alike : subtraction of color -- 8. Why color deceptions? : after-image, simultaneous contrast -- 9. Color mixture in paper : illusion of transparence -- 10. Factual mixtures : additive and subtractive -- 11. Transparence and space-illusion -- Color boundaries and plastic action -- 12. Optical mixture : after-image revised -- 13. The Bezold effect -- 14. Color intervals and transformations -- 15. The middle mixture again : intersecting colors -- 16. Color juxtaposition : harmony : quantity -- 17. Film color and volume color : 2 natural effects -- 18. Free studies : a challenge to imagination -- Stripes : restricted juxtaposition -- Fall leaf studies : an American discovery -- 19. The masters : color instrumentation -- 20. The Weber-Fechner Law : the measure in mixture -- 21. From color temperature to humidity in color -- 22. Vibrating boundaries : enforced contours -- 23. Equal light intensity : vanishing boundaries -- 24. Color theories : color systems -- 25. On teaching color : some color terms -- Explanation of color terms -- Variants versus variety -- 26. In lieu of a bibliography : my first collaborators -- Plates and commentary.

ISBN

• 0300115954
• 9780300115956

LCCN

• 2005937432
• 9780300115956

OCLC

• 63185953
• SCSB-10280692

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library