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The 50th anniversary edition of a classic text, featuring an expanded selection of color studies โThe landmark 1963 book by Josef Albers . . . isnโt just for aspiring artists. Its mesmerizing illustrations are a revelation for anyone interested in color theory and human perception.โโPilar Viladas, New York Times โA visionary work.โโMalcolm Jones, Newsweek Josef Albersโs classic Interaction of Color is a masterwork in art education. Conceived as a handbook and teaching aid for artists, instructors, and students, this influential book presents Albersโs singular explanation of complex color theory principles. Originally published by Yale University Press in 1963 as a limited silkscreen edition with 150 color plates, Interaction of Color first appeared in paperback in 1971, featuring ten color studies chosen by Albers, and has remained in print ever since. With over a quarter of a million copies sold in its various editions since 1963, Interaction of Color remains an essential resource on color, as pioneering today as when Albers created it. Fifty years after Interaction โs initial publication, this anniversary edition presents a significantly expanded selection of close to sixty color studies alongside Albersโs original text, demonstrating such principles as color relativity, intensity, and temperature; vibrating and vanishing boundaries; and the illusion of transparency and reversed grounds. A celebration of the longevity and unique authority of Albersโs contribution, this landmark edition will find new audiences in studios and classrooms around the world. Review: Josef Albers on the Interaction of Color. - Josef Albers shows what is believable about color to begin with, but the illustrations do more than prove how the interaction of different colors visibly works. It's mysterious, coming from the brain because seeing isn't done with the eyes. It's unbelievable but true when you see the proof in each illustration. Review: A great resource for artists - This book was a gift. The synopsis made me think the book would help her understand color theory and lead her to experiment more with her paints. She loves it.
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G**N
Josef Albers on the Interaction of Color.
Josef Albers shows what is believable about color to begin with, but the illustrations do more than prove how the interaction of different colors visibly works. It's mysterious, coming from the brain because seeing isn't done with the eyes. It's unbelievable but true when you see the proof in each illustration.
D**T
A great resource for artists
This book was a gift. The synopsis made me think the book would help her understand color theory and lead her to experiment more with her paints. She loves it.
B**Y
THE book to get to learn how colors interact when seen with the human eye-brain system.
Josef Albers was first a student, then an instructor, and finally a professor at the famous Bauhaus school of art and design in pre-war Germany. When the Nazis forced the closure of the Bauhaus in 1933, Albers emigrated to the United States where he was made head of the Black Mountain College School of Art, in North Carolina. He later joined the design faculty at Yale University. All along the way, Albers sought to extend and deepen his understanding of how people perceive color, both to use it in his own work and to teach art students about how color juxtapositions interact with human vision. With this book, he lays it all out with a set of exercises using high-quality reproductions of relatively simple color paper compositions to illustrate the effects of color interaction. The color plates are of sufficiently high quality to work quite well for anyone with normal vision. Even people with colorblindness can probably benefit from most of the illustrations and surely from Albers' lucid descriptions of the effects. What you learn will likely be useful in your work no matter whether you are a painter, printmaker, worker in stained glass, or an interior decorator. Note that this book is NOT about teaching artistic composition or technique. It is laser-focused on its subject matter -- the optical effects of color interaction. You will find no better book for this, although I would also highly recommend "The Elements of Color" by Johannes Itten (who was one of Albers' teachers and colleagues in the Bauhaus) as a fine complement to Albers' book. Get them both! There are more expensive editions of this book available, but this 50th anniversary softbound edition, which should be well within the budgets of most art students, is more than adequate for learning how colors interact.
M**Z
Excelente compra
Precioso libro. Vendedor recomendado: buen precio, embalaje en perfecto estado y entrega a tiempo.
A**.
A useful classic reference for artists and photographers working with color combinations
This is a wonderful, classic book, but... to be honest, even though I've been a lifelong fan of artists like Albers, etc., this book bored me. I've kept it as a reference for the great illustrations in it, but the text...? Meh. It's worth owning, to have quick visual references to color interactions. But the text...? You may love it; I didn't.
S**E
Ruth Asawa was a close friend and student of this author
This is an excellent book written by an acclaimed author. Read it if you are interested in color theory.
M**I
very informative
I bought this book after a lecture given at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts on color in quilts give by Gerald Roy. He then led us though the collection with comments on color combinations. The book gave me an appreciation of color use that I had not appreciated before and gave me many ideas for future quilt combinations. It also helped my appreciation of what many modern artists are doing in some of their paintings. In each of the sections of the quilt exhibit there is a modern painting which exhibits similar color effects as seen in the quilts. You have to concentrate when reading the book but it is fascinating information.
R**T
Very enlightening as to what you see after working your way throught the book
It is a very revealing way that we look at colors. It makes you wonder what you have seen in the past. He has found out a lot of things that the average looker at colors does not even realize what he is seeing. Some of the exercises require you to do them several times to grasp what he is trying to get across to you as a seer of colors. You see differently after doing what he has you do. The book is not just a read it quickly and you have what he has to say. It takes time to get trought the material, but well worth the effort.
E**Z
Die Musik der Farben
Josef Albersโ โInteraction of Color. 50th Anniversary Editionโ ist 2013 bei der Yale University Press in New Heaven und London erschienen. Das Buch ist eigentlich als Vorlage fรผr den Kunstunterricht gedacht. In 25 Lektionen entwickelt Albers eine experimentelle Phรคnomenologie der Farbe. Richtig wertschรคtzen wird man die Schrift erst dann kรถnnen, wenn man die darin beschriebenen Experimente selbst nachvollzieht. Zentrale Erkenntnis dieses Buches: keine Farbe steht fรผr sich allein und keine Farbe erscheint so, wie sie physikalisch ist. Farben sind demnach Erscheinungen, das heiรt Phรคnomene im wรถrtlichen Sinne. Sie sind so, wie sie sich zeigen. Albers These: โColor is the most relative medium in art.โ (Seite 8) Das bedeutet sie zeigen sich immer nur in bestimmten Verhรคltnissen, sie existieren nicht an und fรผr sich sondern immer in einem bestimmten farbigen, das heiรt optischen Kontext. Musikalisch gesehen, sind Farben immer nur als Farb-Akkorde, das sind Klรคnge verschiedener Farben gemeinsam zu haben. Demnach erscheinen Farben immer nur in Gestalten, das heiรt Zusammenhรคngen sich gegenseitig bedingender Elemente, wie etwa eine Melodie mehr ist als die Summe der Tรถne, die sie bilden. Die Musik ist eine Erfahrung in der Zeit, die sich aus der Gleichzeitigkeit und dem Nacheinander von Tรถnen ergibt. Farben dagegen โ so Albers โ sind ein Ereignis im Raum. Sie sind dabei im Vergleich zu Tรถnen weniger klar auszumachen. Es gibt kein Analogon zum absoluten Gehรถr im Bereich der Farbe. Da das Spiel der Farben unendlich komplex ist und sich aus vielen verschiedenen Spannungsbรถgen zusammensetzt, muss Albers den klassischen Versuchen einer Harmonielehre der Farbe eine Absage erteilen. โAgain: knowledge and ist application is not our aim; instead, it is flexible imagination, discovery, invention โ taste.โ (Seite 43) Er beschrรคnkt sich darauf einige der grundlegenden Eigenschaften der Farberscheinung herauszuarbeiten. Es gibt zwar โRegelnโ fรผr das komplexe Zusammenspiel der Farben, aber keine โRezepteโ fรผr dessen Gelingen. So beispielsweise das Weber-Fechner-Gesetz der Farbmischung: die linear gleichmรครige visuelle Erscheinung der Abdunkelung eines Farbtons setzt ein geometrisches (heiรt: quadratisches 2,4,8โฆ) Mischungsverhรคltnis voraus. Solche Regeln gelten selbstverstรคndlich immer, sagen aber wenig รผber ihre mรถgliche Anwendbarkeit aus. Weiteres wesentliches Moment der Farberscheinung, das Albers herausstreicht, ist ihr synรคsthetischer Charakter. Farben regen in ihrer Wahrnehmung die Spannungspole anderer Sinnesbereiche an. Wir erfahren das Spektrum der Farberscheinungen als leicht oder schwer, warm oder kalt, trocken oder feucht, rau oder glatt. Daraus ergeben sich, aufgrund der Rรคumlichkeit der Farberfahrungen, prรคpositionale Verhรคltnisse. Farben treten hervor oder zurรผck, sinken oder steigen, es gibt ein Hinein und ein Heraus. Die Farbe ergreift uns gewissermaรen mit allen Sinnen. Josef Albersโ โInteraction of Colorsโ ist eine kurze, prรคgnante Einfรผhrung in das Thema der Farbe. Das Buch ist in seinen Aussagen zurรผckhaltend, dafรผr aber in seinen experimentellen Vorschlรคgen inspirierend. Ich sehe โInteraction of Colorโ auf einer Ebene mit den Arbeiten von Kandinsky und Itten zum selben Thema.
L**0
why is this book interesting?
The design is from a person on another planet, so it is tough for people on Earth to follow his structure. I decided to return the book after 2 hours moving back and forward to understand the experiment. A lot of compliments wrapped the content, which may be good to advertise, but definitely non-sense to those who are hungry to digest the concept.
C**I
Livro excelente
Muito bom
S**U
A quality reference classic
An artists and designers โmust have โโ reference
P**N
Excellent book on colour interaction
Good for exploring and understanding colour
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