Plate 3 from Formulation: Articulation I.
Print
1972 (made)
1972 (made)
| Artist/Maker |
Josef Albers was one of the 20th Century's most influential and articulate artist/theorists.
In 1972, at the age of 84, Albers decided to produce an overview of his life-time's work through 66 images and introductory texts which he put together in two portfolios. These images are based closely on selected works representative of his total œuvre. Although they are close to the originals, they are not identical in every particular. As the preface explains "The concept of this publication is the realisation rather than the reproduction of the essential ideas in Josef Albers' works...to show the artist's methods of formulating his ideas and thus demonstrate the manifold potentials in his unique concern for colour and formal relations, rather than to reproduce selected painting from special collections..."
In 1972, at the age of 84, Albers decided to produce an overview of his life-time's work through 66 images and introductory texts which he put together in two portfolios. These images are based closely on selected works representative of his total œuvre. Although they are close to the originals, they are not identical in every particular. As the preface explains "The concept of this publication is the realisation rather than the reproduction of the essential ideas in Josef Albers' works...to show the artist's methods of formulating his ideas and thus demonstrate the manifold potentials in his unique concern for colour and formal relations, rather than to reproduce selected painting from special collections..."
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Plate 3 from Formulation: Articulation I. |
| Materials and techniques | Screenprints and colour screenprints on folded sheets |
| Brief description | Josef Albers: Print - Formulation Articulation |
| Physical description | 'reproductions' with slight differences in colourway and form of Albers' graphic work of the previous 40 years. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | (Each sheet lettered on the outside with artist's and publishers names, title etc. and each blind stamped with the artist's monogram. Numbered on the back of the preface.) |
| Credit line | Given by the Josef Albers Foundation |
| Object history | Formulation: Articulation I E.67.1-33-1994 Preface E.67.34-1994 Portfolio E.67.35-1994 This portfolio and E.68.1-34-1994 form a visual review of Albers's graphic work over forty years. The preface explains: "The concept of this publication is the realization rather than the reproduction of the essential ideas in Josef Albers' works... to show the artist's methods of formulating his ideas and thus demonstrate the manifold potentials in his unique concern for color and formal relations, rather than to reproduce selected paintings from special collections..." |
| Production | Formulation:Articulation I, is one of a pair of cloth-bound portfolios, each containing 33 prints, together with a preface and statement of content in portfolio I. |
| Summary | Josef Albers was one of the 20th Century's most influential and articulate artist/theorists. In 1972, at the age of 84, Albers decided to produce an overview of his life-time's work through 66 images and introductory texts which he put together in two portfolios. These images are based closely on selected works representative of his total œuvre. Although they are close to the originals, they are not identical in every particular. As the preface explains "The concept of this publication is the realisation rather than the reproduction of the essential ideas in Josef Albers' works...to show the artist's methods of formulating his ideas and thus demonstrate the manifold potentials in his unique concern for colour and formal relations, rather than to reproduce selected painting from special collections..." |
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| Bibliographic reference | Brenda Danilowitz: 'The Prints of Josef Albers 1915-1976: a Catalogue Raisonné'; New York, Hudson Hills Press, 2001. Cat ref: appendix C |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.67:3-1994 |
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| Record created | April 1, 2009 |
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