Anni Albers / edited by Briony Fer, Maria Müller-Schareck and Ann Coxon.
Contributor(s): Fer, Briony [editor]
| Müller-Schareck, Maria [editor] | Coxon, Ann [editor] | Albers, Anni | Tate Modern (Gallery) [host institution] | Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany) [host institution].
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BookPublisher: London : Tate Publishing, 2018Description: 192 pages : illustrations (colour and black and white) ; 27 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781849765688 (paperback).Subject(s): Albers, Anni -- Exhibitions | WeavingDDC classification: 746.092 ALB | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 746.092 ALB (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 00230960 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A much-needed publication celebrating the endless creativity of Anni Albers, one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century.
Anni Albers (1899-1994) was a textile designer, weaver, writer and printmaker, who was among the leading pioneers of twentieth-century modernism. Throughout her fruitful career she inspired a reconsideration of fabrics, both in their functional roles and as wall hangings, truly establishing thread and weaving as a valid medium for art. In her later years, Albers took up print-making, translating many of her persistent themes and ideas into two-dimensional form. But while Albers has been extremely influential for younger generations of artists and designers, her contribution to modernist art history has, until now, been rather overlooked.
This publication presents Albers's most important works in a new light, to fully explore and redefine her contribution to twentieth-century art and design, and highlight her significance as an artist in her own right, rather than alongside her husband Josef. Illuminating Albers's technical skill, her material awareness and acute understanding of art and design, this much-needed publication is a celebration of one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, and her endless creativity.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition organised by Tate Modern in collaboration with Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, and held at Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, K20, 9 June – 9 September 2018 and the Tate Modern, London, 11 October 2018 – 27 January 2019.
Bibliography: page 177.
Anni Albers : a many-sided artist / Ann Coxon and Maria Müller-Schareck -- Close to the stuff the world is made of : weaving as a modern project / Briony Fer -- Works. The Bauhaus workshops / Magdalena Droste ; Monumental : developing a wall covering / T'ai Smith ; Black Mountain College exercises / Briony Fer ; Discovering Monte Albán / Maria Minera ; Tangles, knots, braids, loops, and links / Brenda Danilowitz ; Anni Albers as collector / Jennifer Reynolds-Kaye ; Exhibiting textiles : MoMA, 1949 / Priyesh Mistry ; The language of threads / Maria Müller-Schareck ; Temple commissions and Six prayers / Ann Coxon ; Process and metamorphosis : printmaking / Nicholas Fox Weber ; An artistic legacy / Ann Coxon.
"Anni Albers (1899-1994) was a textile designer, weaver, writer, and printmaker, was among the leading pioneers of twentieth-century modernism. Throughout her fruitful career she inspired a reconsideration of fabrics, both in their functional roles and as wall hangings, truly establishing thread and weaving as a valid medium for art. In her later years, Albers took up print-making, translating many of her persistent themes and ideas into two-dimensional form. But while Albers has been extremely influential for younger generations of artists and designers, her contribution to modernist art history has, until now, been rather overlooked. This groundbreaking book redefines Albers's outstanding contribution to twentieth-century art and design. Contextualising Albers's early career at the Bauhaus, and her teaching years at Black Mountain College, this beautifully illustrated book will showcase major commissioned works, wall hangings, designs for commercial use, drawings and studies, jewellery designed and made by Albers, and a selection of her prints. Through exploring key works and themes, relating aspects of Albers's practice to her seminal texts "On Designing" and "On Weaving", and drawing in broader contextual material, including examples of Andean textiles which Albers collected and in which she found intense inspiration for her understanding of woven thread as a form of language. Illuminating Albers's skill as a weaver, her material awareness and acute understanding of art and design, this much-needed publication is a celebration of one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, and her endless creativity." -- Inside cover.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Briony Fer is reader in the history of art at University College, London.(Bowker Author Biography)