Interaction of Color by Albers, Josef - 1963

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1963. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Large quarto. 14.5" x 11" x 5.75". Bound in publisher's original black cloth slipcase lettered in white, housing a matching cloth-bound text volume and a black cloth chemise slipcase housing 80 folders containing 93 color plates with protective tissues collated complete, and softcover commentary volume. Plates are printed in as many as twenty colors, with a combination of silk-screen, four color separation and photo-offset processes.

Near Fine, with lightest fading and wear to spines of cloth bindings, small square shadow to base of spine of the outer slipcase; commentary is near Fine with trace rubbing; folders with prints are About Fine with light occasional toning to tissueguards or plates and several tissueguards and slightly edge-worn. A fantastic copy.

Josef Albers was a German-born artist and educator, and the first living artist to be given a solo shows at MoMa and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He taught at the Bauhaus and Black Mountain College, headed Yale University's department of design, and is considered one of the most influential teachers of the visual arts in the twentieth century.