Josef Albers, One and One Is Four: The Bauhaus Photocollages of Josef Albers

One and One Is Four: The Bauhaus Photocollages of Josef Albers

Josef Albers

Publisher
The Museum of Modern Art
Year
2016
ISBN
9781633450172
Specifications
Hardcover
128 pages
100 illustrations
Edited by Sarah Hermanson Meister
Text by Elizabeth Otto, Lee Ann Daffner

During an extraordinary career that originated at the Bauhaus, Josef Albers (1888–1976) achieved acclaim for his work across a range of mediums, from glassworks and furniture design to printmaking and painting. Yet Albers's engagement with modernist photography remained largely hidden until after his death, and it is only now that all of the unique photocollages the artist produced at the famed art school—before he fled Nazi Germany for the United States—have been published together, many for the first time. One and One Is Four: The Bauhaus Photocollages of Josef Albers reveals an artist at once playful and restrained, personal and enigmatic. The publication features essays that consider Albers's photocollages as remarkable contributions to the medium, survey photocollages by Albers's fellow Bauhäusler, and examine the artist's materials to suggest new insights into these works, the discovery of which has been celebrated as one of the great art finds of the past century.

More by Josef Albers

More from The Museum of Modern Art

Spine Index, an archive of independent photobooks

FIND A
BOOK
/
If you leave this unticked you are logged out when you close the browser, or after 12 hours without activity. Cookies and privacy.
/
one year, or a range like 2015-2020
one or more, separated by commas
full or partial
a name, or design: / text: / edited: / translation: and a name

ARCHIVE

Loading…

PUBLISHER

#

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

V

W

X

Y

Z

ABOUT

SpineIndex is an archive of independent books on photography and visual culture: photobooks, publications, design books and self-published editions — the kind of work that rarely makes it into bookshop windows or mainstream catalogues. It exists to document, connect, and keep visible a world of publishers, artists, and makers who operate outside conventional distribution. A living reference for anyone who takes this territory seriously — collectors, researchers, students, and the simply curious.