Josef Albers: Formulation: Articulation by T. G. Rosenthal (Text) - 2006

London: Thames & Hudson, 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Oblong Quarto. 168 pp. First Edition, 2006 Not Price Clipped. Lightly scuffed bottom fore-edge page corners, else, Pristine, no wear. No markings, tight binding, pages clean and white. 12.75" x 9.75". Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. DJ in removable acetate protector. acknowledgments, preface to the original portfolios, preface to the new edition, Josef Albers and Formulation: Articulation; Josef Albers's Statement of Content Portfolio I; Formulation: Articulation Portfolio I; Formulation: Articulation Portfolio II; Josef Albers's Statement of Content II; notes, select bibliography, chronology, principal exhibitions. Color Plates throughout. "First issued in 1972 as a limited edition set of prints, Formulation: Articulation is being published in book form for the first time. Josef Albers drew on over forty years' work in a variety of media woodcuts, sandblasted glass pictures, and oil paintings for these poetic explorations of color and form. Created just four years before his death in 1976, the images can be seen as the summation of Albers's creative life.