Anni Albers: Constructing Textiles reframes one of the twentieth century's most significant artist-thinkers, tracing how ideas of materiality, construction, and architecture run through her weaving practice, writing, and theoretical legacy across six decades.
About This Book
Anni Albers is widely known as a master weaver and textile designer, but this volume insists on something more precise: that she was a theoretician of material, a writer of consequence, and a thinker whose ideas about construction resonate far beyond the loom. Drawing on her canonical texts On Designing and On Weaving, the book situates Albers within the broader history of modernism while opening new lines of inquiry — into her relationship with architecture, the specific techniques and materials of her weavings, the East Asian influences shaping her thinking, and the nature of her literary voice. Hundreds of reproduced works, including pieces from private collections never before published, make this an indispensable resource for anyone engaged with textile design, Bauhaus scholarship, or modernist art history.
Key Features
- 248 pages of scholarly essays, primary writings by Albers, and hundreds of beautifully reproduced textile works including previously unpublished pieces
- Essays by Glenn Adamson, Karis Medina, Amy Jean Porter, and Jeffrey Saletnik, alongside essential writings by Anni Albers herself
- Published by Yale University Press, 1994
What You'll Discover
- How Albers understood the relationship between textile construction and architectural thinking — explored in Glenn Adamson's dedicated essay
- The specific materials and techniques behind her weavings, examined in close detail by Karis Medina
- The influence of East Asian art and thought on Albers's creative and intellectual development, as analysed by Jeffrey Saletnik
- Albers as a writer: Amy Jean Porter's essay unpacks the literary character and significance of her published texts on design and weaving
About the Author
Fabienne Eggelhöfer and Brenda Danilowitz are the book's authors and editors. [Details available upon request]
Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 248
- Dimensions: 17.8 x 24.8 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9780300289152
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- Publication Date: 1994
Perfect For: Textile designers, Bauhaus scholars, architects interested in the intersection of weaving and spatial thinking, modernism researchers, and serious collectors of design history literature.