#books #art | One and one is four : the Bauhaus photocollages of Josef Albers

One and one is four : the Bauhaus photocollages of Josef Albers / Sarah Hermanson Meister ; with additional texts by Elizabeth Otto and Lee Ann Daffner.
New York, NY : The Museum of Modern Art, 2016.
140 p. : il.
Publicado con motivo de la exposición celebrada en el Museum of Modern Art, Nueva York, 23 noviembre 2016 – 2 abril 2017.
ISBN 9781633450172
/ ES / Libros / Catálogos / Arte – Siglo XX – Europa / Bauhaus / Fotografía – Exposiciones / Josef Albers
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-7ALBERS ONE
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1104821087

[.en] Josef Albers is widely recognized as a crucial figure in 20th-century art, both as an independent practitioner and as a teacher at the Bauhaus, Black Mountain College and Yale University. Albers made paintings, drawings and prints and designed furniture and typography. Arguably the least familiar aspect of his extraordinary career was his inventive engagement with photography, only widely known after his death, including his production of approximately 70 photocollages that feature photographs he made at the Bauhaus between 1928 and 1932. These works anticipate concerns that he would pursue throughout his career--the effects of adjacency, the exploration of color through white, black and gray, and the delicate balance between handcraft and industrial and mechanical form. Albers's photographs were first shown at MoMA in a modest exhibition in 1987, when the Museum acquired two photocollages. In 2015 the Museum acquired ten additional photocollages, making its collection the most substantial anywhere outside the Albers Foundation. This publication reproduces each of the photocollages Albers made at the Bauhaus, presenting the scope of this achievement for the first time. An introductory essay by Sarah Hermanson Meister situates them within the contexts of modernist photography, the Bauhaus ethos and of Albers's own practice.