Two Must-Read Art and Design Books
December 13, 2020 By Stanley Abercrombie "Anni and Josef Albers: Equal and Unequal" by Nicholas Fox Weber. New York: Phaidon, $150. 512 pages, 750 illustrations (350 color). There have been monographs before about Josef Albers (1888-1976) and his wife Anni (1899-1994), but this is a book about them both. And they are the perfect couple for such treatment with lives, opinions, tastes, and art—his paintings and her textiles—that were so closely interdependent. The pair met as students in the early 1920s at the Bauhaus, first in Weimar, then in Dessau, and finally in Berlin. But soon Josef w...
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