Softcover, 208 pages, 64 color images and 16 line drawings, 6 × 9. A celebration of the longevity and unique authority of Albers’s contribution, this landmark edition will find new audiences in studios and classrooms around the world. With over a quarter of a million copies sold in its various editions since 1963, Interaction of Color remains an essential resource on color, as pioneering today as when Albers first created it.įifty years after Interaction’s initial publication, this new edition presents a significantly expanded selection of close to sixty color studies alongside Albers’s original text, demonstrating such principles as color relativity, intensity, and temperature vibrating and vanishing boundaries and the illusion of transparency and reversed grounds. Interaction of Color by Josef Albers is one of the first text books to incorporate colored paper rather than paint in demonstrating color principles. 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 color studies chosen by Albers, and has remained in print ever since. Conceived as a handbook and teaching aid for artists, instructors, and students, this influential book presents Albers’s singular explanation of complex color theory principles. He developed such a method during his tenure at Black Mountain College, work which culminated in 1963 with the publication of the Interaction of Color, a book acclaimed that same year by Howard Sayre Weaver to be a grand passport to perception.
Josef Albers’s Interaction of Color is a masterwork in art education. Albers believed color could only be understood through a series of increasingly complex interactions. The 50th-anniversary edition of a classic text, featuring an expanded selection of color studies
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