Title: Anni Albers and ancient American textiles : from Bauhaus to Black Mountain /
Authors: Troy, Virginia Gardner, 1956-
Publisher: Ashgate,
Year: 2002
Subjects: Albers, Anni Criticism and interpretation.; Hand weaving History; Textile design Influence.; Textile fabrics, Ancient Andes Region.
Abstract: "Anni Albers was a founding member of the Bauhaus weaving workshop. Her teachers and colleagues at the Bauhaus included Itten, Kandinsky and Klee. Their intellectual study of the achievement of what was called primitive art, then rapidly filling German museums, was crucial both in making the case for the status of that art, and in establishing a model for the discussion of modern abstract work. Albers's own investigation of the techniques and abstract designs of ancient American weavers led her to argue that their skill was unsurpassed in the modern world, and to employ those techniques in her own work."
Contents: Some historical background -- Andean textiles in German primitivist discourse and ethnographic scholarship, 1880-1930 -- Andean textiles at the Bauhaus -- Anni Albers at the Bauhaus -- Anni Albers in the United States and Mexico -- Anni Albers at Black Mountain College: weaver, teacher, writer, and collector -- Anni Albers: pictorial weavings in the 1950s and 1960s.