约瑟夫•阿尔伯斯（Josef Albers，1888年-1976年）是20世纪现代主义的**先驱之一：他是一位非凡的老师，作家，画家和色彩理论家，他以《霍马斯广场》（1950-76年画）和1963年由耶鲁大学出版社出版的《色彩的相互作用》而闻名。

本书为30多年来关于阿尔伯斯的**次重要展览的配套出版物，插图丰富，概述了阿尔伯思的作品，介绍了阿尔伯斯漫长的创作生涯的各个方面。从阿尔伯斯在魏玛和德绍包豪斯（Bauhaus）的时代开始，这本出版物讲述了这位画家去美国，并描述了他在美国的主要作品主题以及他频繁前往墨西哥的重要性。一组专家精美地复制和讨论了油画，版画，家具，家用物品，玻璃作品，照片和前哥伦布时期的雕塑。阿尔伯斯（Albers）将文艺复兴时期的雕塑和图标与绘画并列，突显了他艺术的思想和精神层面，并且还探索了阿尔伯斯（Albers）对20世纪60年代极简主义艺术的影响。

本书包括一篇全面的传记，令人信服地展示了这位伟大的艺术家如何通过使用线条，颜色，表面和空间挑战观看者的观念来改变现代设计。

Josef Albers (1888–1976) was one of the leading pioneers of 20th-century modernism: he was an extraordinary teacher, writer, painter, and color theorist, who is best known for the Homages to the Square (painted 1950–76) and The Interaction of Color, published by Yale University Press in 1963.

This generously illustrated overview of Albers’s work, accompanying the first major exhibition on the artist in more than thirty years, features all aspects of his long, creative career. Beginning with Albers's time at the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau, the publication follows the artist to America and describes major themes of his work there as well as the importance of his frequent travels to Mexico. Paintings, prints, furniture, household objects, works in glass, photographs, and pre-Columbian sculptures are beautifully reproduced and discussed by a team of experts. The juxtaposition of Renaissance sculptures and icons with paintings by Albers underlines the intellectual and spiritual dimensions of his art, and Albers’s influence on 1960s Minimalist art is also explored.

Including a comprehensive biography, the book convincingly demonstrates how this great artist transformed modern design by using line, color, surface, and space to challenge the perception of the viewer.