Josef Albers, Late Modernism, and Pedagogic Form

Jeffrey Saletnik

This book explores the origins of Josef Albers’s teaching practices and their significance in conveying attitudes about form, material, and sensory understanding to artists Eva Hesse and Richard Serra. Saletnik demonstrates how pedagogy is a framework that establishes the possibility for artistic discourse and how the methods through which artists learn are manifested in their individual practices. Tracing throughlines from Albers’s training in German educational traditions to his influence on American postwar art, Josef Albers, Late Modernism, and Pedagogic Form positions Albers’s pedagogy as central to the life of modernism.

Hardcover: 320 pp
Publisher: University of Chicago Press (2022)
Language: English
Dimensions: 10 x 7 in.
Illustrations: 53 color; 87 halftones
ISBN 978-022-6699-17-2