Josef Albers
Subtitle: spiritualità e rigore = spirituality and rigor
By: sotto la direzione di Nicholas Fox Weber, Fabio De Chirico = under the direction of Nicholas Fox Weber, Fabio De Chirico
Contributors: Weber, Nicholas Fox, 1947-; De Chirico, Fabio; Galleria nazionale dell'Umbria; Lewis Glucksman Gallery
Publisher: Silvana editoriale
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Cinisello Balsamo, Milano
Language: ita; eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9788836625963
Subjects: Exhibitions
Description: "Josef Albers (1888-1976) believed firmly in art's spiritual dimension. Among his several aphorisms on the topic, none reflects the humble, ascetic character of his spiritual disposition better than the following: 'Easy to know that diamonds are precious. Good to know that rubies have depth. But more to see that pebbles are miraculous.' Conceived by the renowned Albers expert Nicholas Fox Weber, who directed the Albers Foundation for 20 years and knew the artist well, Spirituality and Rigor presents a selection of work by Albers that illustrates his ascetic spirituality and his deeply felt Catholicism. The book stems in part from Fox Weber's The Sacred Modernist: Josef Albers as a Catholic Artist, and is augmented with additional work by Fabio De Chirico. It includes Albers' early drawings of country churches and cathedrals; 'Rosa Mystica,' his stained glass window for St Michael's Church, and other glass works containing religious imagery; his abstractions of crosses and geometric abstractions with spiritually themed titles, from his Black Mountain years; his prints of Mexican gods; photographic interpretations of the theme of angels; and a selection from the Homage to the Square series."--Amazon.com.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at Galleria nazionale dell'Umbria, Perugia, Italy, March 19-June 19, 2013.

"This exhibition originated in 2012 at the Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork, with the title, 'The Sacred Modernist: Josef Albers as a Catholic Artist."

Includes bibliographical references.

Italian and English.