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Plate 5 from the portfolio of 33 entitled 'Formulation: Articulation I'.

Print
1972 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

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..."

Object details

Category
Object type
TitlePlate 5 from the portfolio of 33 entitled '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.
Dimensions
  • Each sheet, folded to height: 38.2cm
  • Each sheet, folded to width: 50.7cm
Style
Copy number
392/1000
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
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..."
Associated objects
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.67:5-1994

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Record createdApril 1, 2009
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