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Selected writings on design / Anni Albers ; edited and with an introduction by Brenda Danilowitz ; foreword by Nicholas Fox Weber.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Albers, Anni
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Design--Philosophy.
- Design.
- Decoration and ornament--Philosophy.
- Decoration and ornament.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 79 p., [24] p. of plates ) ill. (some col.), ports. ;
- Place of Publication:
- Hanover [N.H.] : University Press of New England, c2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Foreword Nicholas Fox Weber vii
- Introduction Brenda Danilowitz ix
- A Start
- Weaving at the Bauhaus 3
- Work with Material 6
- Art-A Constant l0
- Designing 17
- On Jewelry 22
- One Aspect of Art Work 25
- Constructing Textiles 29
- Design: Anonymous and Timeless 34
- Review of Ben Nicholson's Paintings, Reliefs, Drawings 42
- The Pliable Plane: Textiles in Architecture 44
- Conversations with Artists 52
- Weaving, Hand 55
- Designing as Visual Organization 58
- Tactile Sensibility 69
- Material as Metaphor 73
- Bibliography 77
- Illustrations follow pages 16, 32, and 64.
- Captions for the portraits of Anni Albers appear on page 80..
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [77]-79).
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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