	Foreword, by Nicholas Fox Weber
	Introduction

I	Color recollection—visual memory
II	Color reading and contexture
III	Why color paper—instead of pigment and paint
IV	A color has many faces—the relativity of color
V	Lighter and / or darker—light intensity, lightness
	Gradation studies—new presentations
	Color intensity—brightness
VI	1 color appears as 2—looking like the reversed grounds
VII	2 different colors look alike—subtraction of color
VIII	Why color deception?—after-image, simultaneous contrast
IX	Color mixture in paper—illusion of transparence
X	Factual mixtures—additive and subtractive
XI	Transparence and space-illusion Color boundaries and plastic action
XII	Optical mixture—after-image revised
XIII	The Bezold Effect
XIV	Color intervals and transformation
XV	The middle mixture again—intersecting colors
XVI	Color juxtaposition—harmony—quantity
XVII	Film color and volume color—2 natural effects
XVIII	Free studies—a challenge to imagination
	Stripes—restricted juxtaposition
	Fall leaf studies—an American discovery
XIX	The Masters—color instrumentation
XX	The Weber-Fechner Law—the measure in mixture
XXI	From color temperature to humidity in color
XXII	Vibrating boundaries—enforced contours
XXIII	Equal light intensity—vanishing boundaries
XXIV	Color theories—color systems
XXV	On teaching color—some color terms
	Explanation of color terms
	Variants versus variety
XXVI	In lieu of a bibliography—my first collaborators

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Description: Interaction of Color: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition

BOOKInteraction of Color: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition

Josef Albers

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00210

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“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.

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Josef Albers

PublisherYale University Press

Print publication date June 2013 (in print)

Print ISBN 9780300179354

EISBN 9780300260830

Illustrations 62

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