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020			_a978-0892075362
082			_aVSCL _bJOS
100			_aAlbers, Josef
245			_aJosef Albers in Mexico
260			_aUSA _bSolomon R Guggenheim Museum _c2017
300			_a157
520			_a"Albers in ""the promised land of abstract art”: the little-known influence of Mexico “Mexico is truly the promised land of abstract art,” Josef Albers wrote to his former Bauhaus colleague Vasily Kandinsky in 1936. Josef Albers in Mexico reveals the profound link between the art and architecture of ancient Mesoamerica and Albers’ abstract works on canvas and paper. With his wife, the artist Anni Albers, Albers toured pre-Columbian archeological sites and monuments during his 12 or more trips to Mexico and other Latin American countries between 1935 and 1968. On each visit, Albers took black-and-white photographs of pyramids, shrines, sanctuaries and landscapes, which he later assembled into rarely seen photo collages. The resulting works demonstrate Albers’ continued formal experimentation with geometry, this time accentuating a pre-Columbian aesthetic. Josef Albers in Mexico brings together photographs, photo collages, prints and significant paintings from the Variants/Adobe (1946–66) and Homage to the Square (1950–76) series from the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Anni and Josef Albers Foundation. Two scholarly essays, an illustrated map and vivid color reproductions of paintings and works on paper illuminate this little-known period in the influential artist’s practice."
650			_aBiography, Exhibition Catalogue
700			_aHinkson, Lauren _eContributor
710			_aBarrendos, Joaquin [Contributor]
942			_cBKS
999			_c1781 _d1781