{"product_id":"anni-albers-a-life-9780300269376","title":"Anni Albers: A Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first major biography on Anni Albers traces the complex personality and influential artistic career of the groundbreaking modern artist\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnni Albers (1899-1994) was a pioneer of twentieth-century modernism. As a textile designer, weaver, writer, and graphic artist, she inspired a reconsideration of fabrics as an art form, both in their functional roles and as wall hangings, and took the processes of printmaking into uncharted territory. This intimate biography draws on personal conversations with Albers from the 1970s up until Albers's death and on unprecedented archival research to tell a fresh and full story of Albers's life and the development of her unique and influential artistic vision.\u003cp\u003eCapturing Albers's extraordinary perspective about the world around her, whether the milieu she was observing was the wealthy bourgeois Berlin of her childhood or the Mexican villages where she came to feel remarkably at home, Nicholas Fox Weber brings the artist's pithy wit and imaginative mind to life. Weber presents a riveting narrative that follows Albers's trajectory from her time at the Bauhaus and at Black Mountain College to her later years in Connecticut. He considers her complex relationship with her world-renowned husband, Josef Albers, as well as her encounters with luminaries such as John Cage, Buckminster Fuller, Walter Gropius, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Louise Nevelson. He also describes her torturous, late-life obsession with film star Maximilian Schell, thirty-one years her junior. Weber foregrounds Albers's perpetual curiosity, originality, and humor, as well as her novelistic sense of the world around her.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nicholas Fox Weber\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/12\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 408\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.51h x 6.54w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300269376\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/16\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNicholas Fox Weber \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of many books including \u003ci\u003eBalthus: A Biography\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eLe Corbusier: A Life\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Bauhaus Group: Six Masters of Modernism\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eMondrian: His Life, His Art, His Quest for the Absolute. \u003c\/i\u003eHe is executive director of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Nicholas Fox Weber \/ Hardcover \/ English","offer_id":48311236067485,"sku":"9780300269376","price":45.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_25f13f97-76ad-4d8a-9901-3011c61feaf6.jpg?v=1779259780","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/anni-albers-a-life-9780300269376","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}