Josef Albers: Pedagogical Experiments [English / Japanese Bilingual] Edited by Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art ISBN: 978-4-8010-0731-4 Size: modified A5 Page: 352 Retail Price: 3,500JPY Hardcover Contents: Director’s Foreword The Tireless Inquiries: Josef Albers’s Teaching and Art-making　Kameyama Yusuke In Josef Albers’s Classroom　Brenda Danilowitz Chapter 1 The Bauhaus: Economy of Materials (1919–1933) Josef Albers and his Japanese Students at the Bauhaus　Kameyama Yusuke Chapter 2 Black Mountain College: Art and Life (1933–1949) Albers at Black Mountain College　Nagahara Yasuhito Chapter 3 Yale and After: Exploration of Color (1950–1976) Resonance: The “Homage to the Square” Series　Sawayama Ryo Chapter 4 Portfolio Formulation: Articulation (1972) Albers Anthology Appendix Chronology / Exhibitions in Japan / Selected Bibliography / List of Works Josef Albers (1888–1976) was a painter, designer, and educator. Born in Germany, he studied at the Bauhaus, where he later became professor in charge of basic courses. After the school was shut down, he moved to the United States and taught at Black Mountain College as well as at Yale University, training important artists in postwar America. Albers stated that the purpose of his classes was to “open eyes.” He did not simply teach knowledge; he assigned students exercises and encouraged them to think with their hands. He wanted them to discover the new possibilities of color and materials through such investigation. Albers himself continued to explore throughout his life. The result is an astonishingly diverse oeuvre, from the glass works of his Bauhaus period, to furniture and tableware designs, to the painting series “Homage to the Square.”