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The classic book on the art and history of weaving--now expanded
and in full color Written by one of the twentieth century's leading
textile artists, this splendidly illustrated book is a luminous
meditation on the art of weaving, its history, its tools and
techniques, and its implications for modern design. First published
in 1965, On Weaving bridges the transition between handcraft and
the machine-made, highlighting the essential importance of material
awareness and the creative leaps that can occur when design
problems are tackled by hand. With her focus on materials and
handlooms, Anni Albers discusses how technology and mass production
place limits on creativity and problem solving, and makes the case
for a renewed embrace of human ingenuity that is particularly
important today. Her lucid and engaging prose is illustrated with a
wealth of rare and extraordinary images showing the history of the
medium, from hand-drawn diagrams and close-ups of pre-Columbian
textiles to material studies with corn, paper, and the typewriter,
as well as illuminating examples of her own work. Now available for
a new generation of readers, this expanded edition of On Weaving
updates the book's original black-and-white illustrations with
full-color photos, and features an afterword by Nicholas Fox Weber
and essays by Manuel Cirauqui and T'ai Smith that shed critical
light on Albers and her career.
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Anni Albers (Hardcover)
Anni Albers, Brenda Danilowitz, T’ai Smith
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R933
Discovery Miles 9 330
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The first in-depth study of a monumental wall
hanging—rediscovered after many years—by renowned Bauhaus
artist Anni Albers. Albers was influential in elevating textiles
from craft to fine art. Her exquisite wall hanging Camino
Real—seen for the first time outside of Mexico City at David
Zwirner, New York, in 2019, and the subject of this book—is a
superb example of this modern master’s work. In 1967, noted
architects Ricardo Legorreta and Luis Barragán commissioned Albers
to create a work for the newly built Hotel Camino Real in Mexico
City. Completed in 1968, her striking wall hanging Camino Real is
heavily influenced by Latin American art and culture. Showcasing
Albers’s approach to working with textiles as a “many-sided
practice,” it is accompanied in this book by works Albers made
following her move to the United States in 1933, including
innovative wall hangings, weavings, and a range of works on paper.
Together, these works reflect Albers’s brilliant embrace of
different materials and techniques and her ability to work at
varied scales. The works in this publication offer additional
context and motifs, demonstrating the artist’s pioneering
investment in textiles as an art form and her parallel interest in
mass-produced designs. Published on the occasion of the Anni Albers
exhibition presented at David Zwirner, New York, in 2019, this
catalogue features new scholarship from the show’s curator,
Brenda Danilowitz, art historian and chief curator of The Josef and
Anni Albers Foundation, and T’ai Smith, an expert on Bauhaus
craft and weaving.
Anni Albers (1899 - 1994) was one of the most influential textile
designers of the 20th century. Born in Berlin, in 1922 she became a
student at the Bauhaus in Weimar, where she met her husband, Josef
Albers. From 1933 to 1949 Albers taught at Black Mountain College.
The fifteen essays gathered here illustrate Anni Albers's concept
of design as the pursuit of wholeness -- "the coalition of form
answering practical needs and form answering aesthetic needs." This
beautifully illustrated book addresses the artistic and practical
concerns of modern design and considers the ever-changing role of
the designer.
Albers's work is in private collections and in those of leading
museums both here and abroad. Among them are the Busch-Reisinger
Museum at Harvard University, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the
Museum Neue Sammlung in Munich, the Bauhaus Archiv in Berlin, and
the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the
Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York. Her previous books include On
Weaving (1965) and On Designing (1961), both published by Wesleyan
Additional Authors Include Doris McMullen, Dorothy S. Roberts,
Francis Munger, Mary M. Atwater, Clara M. Youse, Lou Tate And W. F.
McNulty. Edited By Paul Bernat.
Additional Authors Include Doris McMullen, Dorothy S. Roberts,
Francis Munger, Mary M. Atwater, Clara M. Youse, Lou Tate And W. F.
McNulty. Edited By Paul Bernat.
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