Interaction of Color: Revised and Expanded Edition (Paperback)

by Josef Albers (Author), Mr. Nicholas Fox Weber (Foreword)

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"'The Interaction of Colour... has proven key to understanding color relationships and human perception... Anyone who works with color should read Albers' findings, period.' Pamela Pfiffner, MacUser"

Product Description

Josef Albers’s Interaction of Color is a masterwork in twentieth-century art education. Conceived as a handbook and teaching aid for artists, instructors, and students, this timeless book presents Albers’s unique ideas of color experimentation in a way that is valuable to specialists as well as to a larger audience.
Originally published by Yale University Press in 1963 as a limited silkscreen edition with 150 color plates, Interaction of Color first appeared in paperback in 1971, featuring ten representative color studies chosen by Albers. The paperback has remained in print ever since and is one of the most influential resources on color for countless readers.
This new paperback edition presents a significantly expanded selection of more than thirty color studies alongside Albers’s original unabridged text, demonstrating such principles as color relativity, intensity, and temperature; vibrating and vanishing boundaries; and the illusions of transparency and reversed grounds. Now available in a larger format and with enhanced production values, this expanded edition celebrates the unique authority of Albers’s contribution to color theory and brings the artist’s iconic study to an eager new generation of readers.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Yale University Press; Rev Exp edition (May 15, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0300115954
• ISBN-13: 978-0300115956
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #4,099 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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73 of 74 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good poetry - Needs more plates, July 11, 2001

By	Spencer Harvey "[e-mail]" (Acton, MA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Interaction of Color: Revised Edition (Paperback)

When originally published, Albers' book had 150 plates. Not surprising for a treatise on the use of color in art. However, when you chop it down to 10 color plates, as is the case with this "pocket" volume, something is lost. Never-the-less, Albers is clearly a master of this topic, and his poetic prose is inspiring. Let's hope that the original volume is reprinted at some point.

101 of 105 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Almost worthless without the original color plates, February 8, 2005

By	Shock Writer (Knoxville, Tennessee United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Interaction of Color: Revised Edition (Paperback)

As another reviewer states the original had 150 color plates this version has only 8 in mine. The visual phenomena are so complex that without the plates you can't possibly accurately understand what the book is talking about. Sure you could make you own examples, but if you did, you would NOT be sure, given the complex examples, that you understood what the author was talking about. Instead you will have a false understanding or incomplete understanding that will make you look foolish. The publisher is cashing in on the author's previous great work without really republishing it. This is the lowest I've ever rated a book.

57 of 60 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best source to learn about and understand color, August 7, 1999

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This review is from: Interaction of Color: CD-ROM Edition, Version 1.1 for Macintosh Computers (Misc. Supplies)

As an art student at Idaho State University in 1970, we used this resource as a basis for our studies. To this date, I feel it is the one book from which I learned the real meaning of color and how we perceive it and how to make it do what we want it to do in the things we create. I have never seen an approach like this, and the color studies were the ultimate learning experience for me. There's nothing like it!