Word: josef
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LINE, COLOR, texture are among the artist's most basic tools. Usually they are means to the ends of representation, statement or expression. Rarely are they so joyfully acknowledged and celebrated as ends in themselves as they are in the works of Josef and Anni Albers. The Albers and their students at Black Mountain College are the subject of an eclectic exhibition at the Busch-Reisinger Museum, an exhibition which draws on nearly forty years of artistic production to reveal the creative energy and inquisitive imagination of two of the finest masters of abstract design...
...works on exhibit at the Busch-Reisinger, whether utilitarian or purely aesthetic in purpose, support Anni Albers's statement that, "The good designer is the anonymous designer ...the one who does not stand in the way of his material." The screenprints, lithographs, textile samples, paintings--even Josef Albers's photographs and his silver holders for ice tea glasses--show an overriding concern with the impersonal qualities of formal design...
...Busch-Reisinger, Harvard's Germanic museum, will be showing the work of Josef and Anni Albers through mid-August. The Albers have exceptionally fine modern craftsmen who contributed vastly to the Bauhaus's enduring reputation as the bastion of contemporary design. Josef is represented in the Busch's exhibit by paintings, lithografs, wallpaper and photographs. Anni's work includes weaving samples and textile design paintings...
...honest study comes...if we are lucky, something called art," according to Josef Albers. Something called art--including some things that are art--are on display at a rare Carpenter Center exhibition set up as a benefit for the New England Conservatory. The Carpenter Center show is made up of work by the students of Josef Albers, a man of squares who was a leader of the Bauhaus movement in Germany in the '30s and who directed the Yale design school in the '50s. One item from the exhibit is pictured on page one, and other exhibits range from watercolors...
...first the KGB mailed these false letters from Prague, using the return address of the well-known author and psychiatrist Josef Nesvadba. Later they supposedly were sent by a certain Ottokar Gorsky, whose home address was given as 1, Revolution Street, the location of the Czechoslovak airline and tourist offices. But Gorsky's telephone number indicated that he lived in another district-which happens to be the location both of the Soviet embassy and the Czechoslovak secret police...