Anni Albers and Ancient American Textiles: From Bauhaus to Black Mountain
"Anni Albers was a founding member of the Bauhaus weaving workshop. Her teachers and colleagues at the Bauhaus included Itten, Kandinsky and Klee. Their intellectual study of the achievement of what was called primitive art, then rapidly filling German museums, was crucial both in making the case for the status of that art, and in establishing a model for the discussion of modern abstract work. Albers's own investigation of the techniques and abstract designs of ancient American weavers led...
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Troy (art history, Berry College) explores the relationship between Anni Albers founding member of the Bauhaus weaving workshop and the influence of the Andean weavers of ancient Peru on Albers' approach to textile design. Coverage includes historical background to Albers work; Andean textiles in German primitivist discourse and ethnographic scholarship, and at the Bauhaus; Albers' years at the Bauhaus, in the U.S. and Mexico, and at Black Mountain College; and the artist's pictorial weavings in the 1950s and 1960s. Academic but accessible to general readers with an interest in art, art history, and textile design. Illustrated with b&w and color photographs. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, ORBooknewsTroy (art history, Berry College) explores the relationship between Anni Albersfounding member of the Bauhaus weaving workshopand the influence of the Andean weavers of ancient Peru on Albers' approach to textile design. Coverage includes historical background to Albers work; Andean textiles in German primitivist discourse and ethnographic scholarship, and at the Bauhaus; Albers' years at the Bauhaus, in the U.S. and Mexico, and at Black Mountain College; and the artist's pictorial weavings in the 1950s and 1960s. Academic but accessible to general readers with an interest in art, art history, and textile design. Illustrated with b&w and color photographs. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
List of illustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1Ch. 1Some historical background5Ch. 2Andean textiles in German primitivist discourse and ethnographic scholarship, 1880-193025Ch. 3Andean textiles at the Bauhaus39Ch. 4Anni Albers at the Bauhaus73Ch. 5Anni Albers in the United States and Mexico97Ch. 6Anni Albers at Black Mountain College: weaver, teacher, writer, and collector129Ch. 7Anni Albers: pictorial weavings in the 1950s and 1960s147Notes163Select bibliography181Index187
\ BooknewsTroy (art history, Berry College) explores the relationship between Anni Albers<-->founding member of the Bauhaus weaving workshop<-->and the influence of the Andean weavers of ancient Peru on Albers' approach to textile design. Coverage includes historical background to Albers work; Andean textiles in German primitivist discourse and ethnographic scholarship, and at the Bauhaus; Albers' years at the Bauhaus, in the U.S. and Mexico, and at Black Mountain College; and the artist's pictorial weavings in the 1950s and 1960s. Academic but accessible to general readers with an interest in art, art history, and textile design. Illustrated with b&w and color photographs. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
