Description: Interaction of Color: The Complete Digital Edition
“One of the most important books on color ever written.”—Michael Hession, Gizmodo

Josef Albers’s Interaction of Color is a masterwork in twentieth-century art education. Conceived as a handbook and teaching aid for artists, instructors, and students, this timeless book presents Albers’s unique ideas of color experimentation in a way that is valuable to specialists as well as to a larger audience.

Now, for the first time, the Interaction of Color is available as its own interactive website, allowing users to create, save, and share color studies following Albers's guidance. The digital edition also includes video commentary by experts explaining the principles in some of the color exercises featured in the book.
Print publication date September 1963 (in print)
Print ISBN 9780300146936
EISBN 9780300269284
Illustrations 122
Print Status in print
Description: Interaction of Color: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00210
“One of the most important books on color ever written.”—Michael Hession, Gizmodo

Josef Albers’s Interaction of Color is a masterwork in twentieth-century art education. Conceived as a handbook and teaching aid for artists, instructors, and students, this timeless book presents Albers’s unique ideas of color experimentation in a way that is valuable to specialists as well as to a larger audience.

Originally published by Yale University Press in 1963 as a limited silkscreen edition with 150 color plates, Interaction of Color first appeared in paperback in 1971, featuring ten representative color studies chosen by Albers. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the original publication of Interaction of Color, Yale University Press released a new paperback edition that presents a significantly expanded selection of more than thirty color studies alongside Albers’s original unabridged text, demonstrating such principles as color relativity, intensity, and temperature; vibrating and vanishing boundaries; and the illusions of transparency and reversed grounds.

The A&AePortal version of the Interaction of Color is based on the 2013 edition, and includes original video commentary by experts explaining Albers's principles in some of the color exercises featured in the book. The electronic version also combines the classic texts with the plates and commentary, chapter-by-chapter, providing a seamless reading experience.
Print publication date June 2013 (in print)
Print ISBN 9780300179354
EISBN 9780300260830
Illustrations 62
Print Status in print