Une biographie visuelle spectaculaire et inédite de deux pionniers de l'art et du design modernes. Le couple Albers, Josef peintre, designer et professeur et Anni artiste textile, tisseuse et graveuse comptent parmi les artistes abstraits les plus importants du XXe siècle. Cette superbe monograph...
A spectacular and unprecedented visual biography of the leading pioneers and protagonists of modern art and design. Josef - painter, designer, and teacher - and Anni Albers - textile artist and printmaker - are among the twentieth century's most important abstract artists, and this is the fi rst ...
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Nicholas Fox Weber, for thirtythree years head of the Albers Foundation, spent many years with Anni and Josef Albers, the only husbandandwife artistic pair at the Bauhaus (she was a textile artist; he a professor and an artist, in glass, metal, wood, and photography). The Alberses told him their own...
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From acclaimed biographer and cultural historian, author of Balthus and Patron Saints--the first full-scale life of le Corbusier, one of the most influential, admired, and maligned architects of the twentieth century, heralded is a prophet in his lifetime, revered as a god after his death. He was a...
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This lively work of cultural history tells the stories of five young art patrons who, in the last 1920s and 1930s, were instrumental in bringing modern painting, sculpture, and dance to America. A combination of wealth, Harvard education privilege, and family connections enabled Lincoln Kirstein, Ed...
A Life. From acclaimed biographer and cultural historian, author of 'Balthus' and 'Patron Saints', the first full-scale life of le Corbusier, one of the most influential, admired, and maligned architects of the twentieth century, heralded as a prophet in his lifetime, revered as a god after his deat...
Nicholas Fox Weber, for thirtythree years head of the Albers Foundation, spent many years with Anni and Josef Albers, the only husbandandwife artistic pair at the Bauhaus (she was a textile artist; he a professor and an artist, in glass, metal, wood, and photography). The Alberses told him their own...
A rich, wide-ranging meditation on the iPhone as direct descendant of the 1930's Bauhaus, one of the 20th century's most influential schools of art and design (summed up in Mies van der Rohe's dictum, "less is more") whose principle aim was to connect art and industry. From one of the leading author...
Fondée en 1919 en Allemagne, à Weimar, l'école pionnière du Bauhaus accueillit jusqu'au début des années 1930 une communauté bouillonnante d'artistes. C'est en côtoyant pendant de nombreuses années Josef et Anni Albers, le seul couple parmi les résidents du Bauhaus, que Nicholas Fox Weber a pu pénét...
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