Interaction of Color: 50 Years of Vibrant Visual Exploration

Satyaki Dasgupta: Firstly I got the book in excellent condition, especially the packaging was perfect. Secondly if you are Designer or an artist you must consider this book.

India on Nov 24, 2023

M3sM3rCE: this book is so easy to understand. It helps you know how to use colors.

United States on Sep 23, 2023

Ojo Emmanuel Ayowola: Amazing book

United Kingdom on Sep 03, 2023

Steve C: Got for my daughter for her studies secsays it’s good

United Kingdom on Aug 05, 2023

KathleenG.: This book is something I would like if trained as an artist or practicing art professionally.
It reads somewhat like a text book, although an enjoyable and thoughtful text.

United States on Jun 08, 2023

Andri Gylfason: perfect

United States on May 29, 2023

Luca: Il libro, in inglese, aiuta a comprendere alcuni aspetti della percezione del colore e del modo in cui le varie tinte interagiscono fra di loro. Attraverso le spiegazioni dell'autore, che sfrutta gli esperimenti effettuati nelle lezioni frontali con gli studenti (di cui sono riproposti alcuni esempi commentati) si scopre quali possono essere i modi di valorizzare un colore o annullarlo, o quali sono alcune delle dinamiche che concorrono a definire il modo in cui percepiamo le forme in rapporto al loro colore.

Non lo riterrei un "manuale pratico", bensì più come uno strumento utile a costruire una conoscenza critica dell'argomento.

Italy on Mar 21, 2023

Greg K: It is simply a classic. You read this book do you understand color. Color is not as simple as you think. But the author does a great job I’m exposing you to its quirks.

United States on Mar 20, 2023

Bob Conway: 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...

United States on Jun 13, 2020

Eberhard Lutz: Josef Albers’ “Interaction of Color. 50th Anniversary Edition” ist 2013 bei der Yale University Press in New Heaven und London erschienen. Das Buch ist eigentlich als Vorlage für den Kunstunterricht gedacht. In 25 Lektionen entwickelt Albers eine experimentelle Phänomenologie der Farbe. Richtig wertschätzen wird man die Schrift erst dann können, wenn man die darin beschriebenen Experimente selbst nachvollzieht.

Zentrale Erkenntnis dieses Buches: keine Farbe steht für sich allein und keine Farbe erscheint so, wie sie physikalisch ist. Farben sind demnach Erscheinungen, das heißt Phänomene im wörtlichen Sinne. Sie sind so, wie sie sich zeigen. Albers These: „Color is the most relative medium in art.” (Seite 8) Das bedeutet sie zeigen sich immer nur in bestimmten Verhältnissen, sie existieren nicht an und für sich sondern immer in einem bestimmten farbigen, das heißt optischen Kontext. Musikalisch gesehen, sind Farben immer nur als Farb-Akkorde, das sind Klänge verschiedener Farben gemeinsam zu haben. Demnach erscheinen Farben immer nur in Gestalten, das heißt Zusammenhängen sich gegenseitig bedingender Elemente, wie etwa eine Melodie mehr ist als die...

Germany on Apr 12, 2020