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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Josef Albers |
| ISBN: | 0300115954 9780300115956 |
| OCLC Number: | 63185953 |
| Notes: | "Revised and expanded paperback edition"--T.p. verso. Original ed.: 1963. |
| Description: | xi, 145 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. |
| 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. |
| Responsibility: | Josef Albers ; [foreword by Nicholas Fox Weber]. |
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Abstract:
Conceived as a handbook and teaching aid for artists, instructors, and students, this book presents ideas of colour experimentation, featuring thirty colour studies, with Albers' unabridged text, demonstrating such principles as colour relativity, intensity, and temperature; vibrating and vanishing boundaries; and the illusion of transparency.
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"'The Interaction of Colour... has proven key to understanding color relationships and human perception... Anyone who works with color should read Albers' findings, period.' Pamela Pfiffner, MacUser"
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