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Studio International, February 1964

Editor/G. S. Whittet
Art Editor/David Pelham
Advertisement Manager/Michael Kinloch
Volume 167 Number 850

Content includes:
Gwyther Irwin. The Artist at Work: 26/Mervyn Levy
Josef Albers/Daniel and Eugenia Robbins
Antony Hollaway. Artist for Architecture/Bernard Orna
Dunn International/the exhibition reviewed
Franco Garelli. Exorcising Michelangelo/Michel Conil Lacoste
Six painters from Greece/Charles S. Spencer
Common market for artists. Paris Commentary/Alexander Watt
Faded idioms and new reactions. New York Commentary/Dore Ashton
Richier casts her shadow, new reliefs.
London Commentary/G. S. Whittet
Collectors collected/George Savage

Cover:
Josef Albers
Homage to the Square: Apparition, 1959
Oil on board. 471 × 473 in.
Collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum, New York

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Josef Albers
Josef Albers was an American-German artist and educator known for his geometric coloured paintings and his teachings and writing on colour theory. He studied at the Bauhaus and then joined as a teacher. Josef was married to Anni Albers and also designed furniture, glassware and sculpture. Explore related designers including László Moholy-Nagy and Herbert Bayer. See also Bauhaus, American Modernism, 1920s graphic design history.
Studio International
Studio International was a British art journal published from 1893 as The Studio before becoming Studio International in 1964. It documented contemporary art, design, and visual culture with an international scope.

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Studio International, February 1964. Cover artwork by Josef Albers
Studio International, February 1964. Cover artwork by Josef Albers
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