Interaction of Color: 50th Anniversary Edition

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.   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. 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..   Fifty 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 tempera

An essential piece of visual literacy.”Maria Popova, Brain Pickings. 59“Interaction of Color with its illuminating visual exercises and mind-bending optical illusions, remains an indispensable blueprint to the art of seeing. "Joseph Albers, an artist and greatest educator in the United States, is one of those who first tore down the old hierarchical concept of color."Yusuke Nakahara, Color Planning Center No

better version of a classic Dennis Kalma Albers was a pioneer in the systematic exploration of how our perception of colors is influenced by surrounding colors. The original edition of his classic work included numerous prints to illustrate the ways in which colors interact. The previous paperback edition included only a few of these prints; this edition includes more of these prints and so gives the reader more insight into a fascinating subject. The work is of interest not only to painters and printmakers but also to photographers and to anyone who is interested in how we perceive the world around us.. Albers is THE standard M. Vincent This volume is a modern reprint of the classic Interaction of Color that now resides most often in rare book collections. The reproductions are reasonably accurate. I use it in teaching color theory at the university. Along with some of the Itten's work, these two are still the best for color theory instruction. It is not a hobbyist approach, so lightweight students may find it too scientific, but for those interested in the meat of color theory, this is a good starting place. It does not cover additive light structures or RGB media, but it was designed for painters, so it is what one would. very informative Mimi I bought this book after a lecture given at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts on color in quilts give by Gerald Roy. He then led us though the collection with comments on color combinations. The book gave me an appreciation of color use that I had not appreciated before and gave me many ideas for future quilt combinations. It also helped my appreciation of what many modern artists are doing in some of their paintings. In each of the sections of the quilt exhibit there is a modern painting which exhibits similar color effects as seen in the quilts. You have to concentrate when reading the book