THE ART OF COLOR
Johannes Itten

Johannes Itten: THE ART OF COLOR. NYC: Reinhold, 1961. Second printing from 1962. A very good hardcover book in a very good dust jacket: dj has several short, closed tears and wear to edges. Page edges are lightly soiled. Interior unmarked and clean. Out-of-print. A large, unwieldy volume that is scarce in the original edition.

12.5 x 11.5 hardcover book with 156 pages and over 200 color plates tipped in. Translated by Ernst van Hagen. A magnificent, oversized folio with gorgeous leterpress printing combined with tipped-in plates printed in Vienna, France and Germany. They truly don't make them like this anymore.

Contents:

• Color Physics
• Color Agent and Color Effect
• Concord of Colors
• Subjective Timbre
• Theory of Color Design
• The Twelve-Part Color Circle
• The Seven Color Contrasts
• Color Mixing
• The Color Sphere
• Color Harmony
• Form and Color
• Spatial Effects of Color
• Theory of Color Impression
• Theory of Color Expression
• Composition

Johannes Itten ( 1888 - 1967 ) was invited by Walter Gropius to join the Bauhaus , a combination of the Weimar Art Academy and the Weimar Arts and Crafts School, in 1919. Itten was an central figure in the early Bauhaus days and an innovative teacher who employed the pedagogy of Friedrich Froebel's "education through play."

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