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Josef Albers : midnight and noon.
- Title
- Josef Albers : midnight and noon.
- Publication
- New York, New York : David Zwirner Books, [2016]
- ©2016
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- Description
- 136 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color); 28 cm
- Summary
- Using minimal means--paint straight from the tube, applied meticulously with a palette knife--and a focused selection of colors, Josef Albers's sustained, serial investigation into rhythm, mood, and spatial movement is explored in this lavishly produced catalogue that looks solely at his respective grey and yellow paintings, exploring two distinct color palettes pervasive to his oeuvre. Highlighting the rich diversity of effects Albers drew from a narrow range of colors, this publication centers around the groundbreaking Homage to the Square (A) (1950), the inaugural painting in the series that would occupy the artist until his death in 1976. The pairing of two palettes--black, white, and grey and an array of yellows--stems in part from Albers's 1964 series of lithographs, Midnight and Noon, which brought together these two opposing color sets in a single portfolio. Together they address the limitless possibilities the artist found in color and form in relation to light. The impossible simultaneity of "midnight" and "noon" moreover speaks to Albers's transcending of what he called "factual facts" in favor of the play of perception and illusion possible in art -- Publisher's website.
- Uniform Title
- Josef Albers (2016)
- Alternative Title
- Midnight and noon
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Exhibition catalogs
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Note
- Published on the occasion of the exhibitions "Josef Albers: grey steps, grey scales, grey ladders", held at David Zwirner, New York, November 3-December 17, 2016 and "Josef Albers: sunny side up" held at David Zwirner, London, January 13-March 10, 2017.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Two artistic pairings: Albers and Zwirner, midnight and noon / Nicholas Fox Weber -- On my "Homage to the square" / Josef Albers -- Plates -- Albers paints a picture / Elaine de Kooning -- Adventures with troubled light / Colm Tóibín -- Chronology -- Acknowledgments.
- ISBN
- 9781941701621
- 1941701620
- LCCN
- ^^2016960226
- OCLC
- 967972622
- SCSB-10271063
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library