Josef Albers: Life and Work [Hardcover]

A meticulously researched, elegantly written, and generously illustrated biography of an artist whose personality was as enigmatic as his art& Darwent deftly characterizes the outsized egos and philosophical and petty rivalries that roiled the Bauhaus& An authoritative and sensitive portrait of a modern master.A gripping biography of a German artist unjustly pigeonholed as the creator of interminable variations of pictures of squares& Darwent draws extensively on Alberss previously unpublished writings and drawings to fully capture the artists life& Sympathetic and generously illustrated.Charles Darwent's biography gives the German-born American artist and teacher his due [and] makes a strong case for an artist who was not as recognized as fellow Bauhaus teachers Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee and Lyonel Feininger& Darwent emphasizes the poetic yearning that hides within Albers's scientific-seeming experiments, most notably in his Homage to the Square paintings& A gruff yet caring teacher, a ladies' man and a daily Mass-going Catholic, both jealous of and generous with his peers, Albers steps convincingly from these pages.The first full-scalebiography of the great20th-century artist,craftsman, and thinkerJosef Albers, whoseinfluence is still felt today.?