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Article: Learning through color.(Josef Albers: To Open Eyes - The Bauhaus, Black Mountain College, and Yale; Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today; Colour)(Book review)
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- Art in America
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- May 1, 2009
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Josef Albers: To Open Eyes; The Bauhaus, Black Mountain College, and Yale, by Frederick A. Horowitz and Brenda Danilowitz, London and New York, Phaidon Press, 2006; 288 pages, $59.95.
Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today, by Ann Temkin et al., New York, Museum of Modern Art, 2008; 248 pages, $55.
Colour, edited by David Batchelor, Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 2008; 240 pages, $24.95.
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