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Books by Josef Albers

Josef Albers (1888–1976) was a German-American artist and educator whose career spanned the Bauhaus in Dessau, where he was both student and master, and then Black Mountain College and Yale, where he taught for decades. His abstract paintings, especially the long-running Homage to the Square series, made him one of the most systematic investigators of color relationships in the history of art. Interaction of Color, first published in 1963 as a limited-edition portfolio, distilled his teaching into a transmissible form. His influence on generations of designers, architects, and visual artists is difficult to overstate.