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Book Synopsis"In association with The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation."
Trade Review"[A] pioneering compendium."
---Leslie Camhi, T Magazine"The chief argument of the book—that the hand-made and mechanically reproduced can happily co-exist—is told visually as well as verbally. . . . [Anni Albers] emerges from the new
On Weaving as both a historical figure and a living one."
---Charles Darwent, Burlington Magazine"It is over 50 years since
On Weaving was first published in 1965, but in this new edition it is as fresh and inspiring as ever. Indeed, the colour plates alone . . . could furnish hours of contemplation."
---Cally Brooker, Journal of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers"This new edition of
On Weaving [is]
achingly timely. In an age in which millennials are desperately searching for 'mindfulness' to counter the relentless, bleak news cycle, downloading breathing apps to their phones, and seeking peace in coloring books and knitting, Albers’s celebration of weaving, which forces the weaver to practice a patient and rhythmic meditation, sings to a new generation. . . . The transcultural modernist values and designs of both Anni and Josef Albers still seem fresh and vibrant. . . . By bringing their works to new audiences, making explicit their wide-ranging inspirations, and highlighting the historicity of their seemingly abstract forms [recent exhibitions] and the republication of
On Weaving ensure that the Alberses’ legacies will continue to resonate."
---Sophie Pitman, West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design, History, and Material Culture"[
On Weaving] has luminous simplicity and clarity. . . . [B]y illustrating images that most weavers would regard as quotidian in
On Weaving, such as the chequer-board graphics of weave notations, she gave the art world space to make links with other forms of abstraction. By writing with no assumption of a craft audience, Albers was able to announce that weaving was ‘the event of a thread’ and ‘a method of forming a pliable plane of threads by interlacing them rectangularly’, thus allowing all of us to look at the discipline anew."
---Tanya Harrod, Apollo
