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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Albers' inkless intaglios were made by pressing wet, heavy paper onto an engraved plate. They result from hundreds of ink and pencil drawings on graph paper made over the past decade. Why does he print without ink? "I am trying to reduce my means-it is a demonstration of my economic inclination," he explains with a sly twinkle behind his glasses. Albers has an equally simple explanation for the ambiguity of his new pictures and their shifting forms: "My purpose is to show that within the same skeleton different actions may appear. In Duo B the left and right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Prints Without Ink | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

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