Gunta Stölzl, Anni Albers

Gunta Stölzl, Anni Albers
Author: Gunta Stölzl
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1990
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ISBN:

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Gunta Stölzl, Anni Albers

Gunta Stölzl, Anni Albers
Author: Gunta Stölzl
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Total Pages: 1
Release: 1990
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Anni Albers

Anni Albers
Author: Ann Coxon
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2018-08-07
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0300237251

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A long-overdue reassessment of one of the most important and influential woman artists working at midcentury Anni Albers (1899–1994) was a German textile designer, weaver, and printmaker, and among the leading pioneers of 20th-century modernism. Although she has heavily influenced generations of artists and designers, her contribution to modernist art history has been comparatively overlooked, especially in relation to that of her husband, Josef. In this groundbreaking and beautifully illustrated volume, Albers’s most important works are examined to fully explore and redefine her contribution to 20th-century art and design and highlight her significance as an artist in her own right. Featured works—from her early activity at the Bauhaus as well as from her time at Black Mountain College, and spanning her entire fruitful career—include wall hangings, designs for commercial use, drawings and studies, jewelry, and prints. Essays by international experts focus on key works and themes, relate aspects of Albers’s practice to her seminal texts On Designing and On Weaving, and identify broader contextual material, including examples of the Andean textiles that Albers collected and in which she found inspiration for her understanding of woven thread as a form of language. Illuminating Albers’s skill as a weaver, her material awareness, and her deep understanding of art and design, this publication celebrates an artist of enormous importance and showcases the timeless nature of her creativity.

Bauhaus Weaving Theory

Bauhaus Weaving Theory
Author: T’ai Smith
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2014-11-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1452943222

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The Bauhaus school in Germany has long been understood through the writings of its founding director, Walter Gropius, and well-known artists who taught there such as Wassily Kandinsky and László Moholy-Nagy. Far less recognized are texts by women in the school’s weaving workshop. In Bauhaus Weaving Theory, T’ai Smith uncovers new significance in the work the Bauhaus weavers did as writers. From colorful, expressionist tapestries to the invention of soundproofing and light-reflective fabric, the workshop’s innovative creations influenced a modernist theory of weaving. In the first careful examination of the writings of Bauhaus weavers, including Anni Albers, Gunta Stözl, and Otti Berger, Smith details how these women challenged assumptions about the feminine nature of their craft. As they harnessed the vocabulary of other disciplines like painting, architecture, and photography, Smith argues, the weavers resisted modernist thinking about distinct media. In parsing texts about tapestries and functional textiles, the vital role these women played in debates about medium in the twentieth century and a nuanced history of the Bauhaus comes to light. Bauhaus Weaving Theory deftly reframes the Bauhaus weaving workshop as central to theoretical inquiry at the school. Putting questions of how value and legitimacy are established in the art world into dialogue with the limits of modernism, Smith confronts the belief that the crafts are manual and technical but never intellectual arts.

Bauhaus 1919-1933

Bauhaus 1919-1933
Author: Barry Bergdoll
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2009
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780870707582

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The Bauhaus, the school of art and design founded in Germany in 1919 and shut down by the Nazis in 1933, brought together artists, architects and designers in an extraordinary conversation about modern art. Bauhaus 1919-1933, published to accompany a major multimedia exhibition at MoMA, is the first comprehensive treatment of the subject by MoMA since 1938 and offers a new generational perspective on the 20th century's most influential experiment in artistic education. It brings together works in a broad range of mediums, including industrial design, furniture, architecture, graphics, photography, textiles, ceramics, theatre and costume design, and painting and sculpture - many of which have rarely if ever been seen outside of Germany. Featuring about 400 colour plates and a rich range of documentary images, this publication includes two overarching images by the exhibition's curators, Leah Dickerman and Barry Bergdoll, concise interpretive essays on key objects by over twenty leading scholars, and an illustrated, narrative chronology.

On Weaving

On Weaving
Author: Anni Albers
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780486431925

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This survey of textile fundamentals and methods, written by the foremost textile artist of the 20th century, covers hand weaving and the loom, fundamental construction and draft notation, modified and composite weaves, early techniques of thread interlacing, interrelation of fiber and construction, tactile sensibility, and design. 9 color illustrations. 112 black-and-white plates.

WOVEN GRAPHIC ART ALBERS

WOVEN GRAPHIC ART ALBERS
Author: WEBER NICHOLAS FOX
Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1985-05-17
Genre: Art, Abstract
ISBN:

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Gunta Stölzl

Gunta Stölzl
Author: Gunta Stölzl
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2009
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780870707735

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to many surprising discoveries and provides a vivid portrait of Gunta Stolzl as both an individual and an artist." --Book Jacket.