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Josef Albers : to open eyes : the Bauhaus, Black Mountain College and Yale
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Josef Albers : to open eyes : the Bauhaus, Black Mountain College and Yale

by Frederick A. Horowitz, Brenda Danilowitz

This book details the influential forty-year teaching career of artist and educator Josef Albers, tracing his journey from the Bauhaus in Germany to Black Mountain College and Yale University.

Accession 2616 ISBN 9780714845999 Publisher Phaidon Press
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