ANNI ALBERS
Anni Albers and Alex Reed, Neck piece, aluminum strainer, paper clips, and chain, 1940 circa here.
Anni Albers, Necklace from hardware, brass grommets on length of chamois, 1940 circa here.
Anni Albers and Alex Reed, Neck piece, washers and grosgrain ribbon, 1940 circa here.
Anni Albers, Necklace, 35 bobby pins on metal plated chain, 1940 circa here.
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ANNI ALBERS
ANCIENT WRITING, rayon, linen, cotton, and jute, 1936 (National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Gift of John Young ©2008 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York)
ANNI ALBERS
WALL HANGING, wool and silk, 1925 (Die Neue Sammlung Staatliches Museum für angewandte Kunst, Munich ©2008 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York)
ANNI ALBERS
UNDER WAY, cotton, linen, and wool, 1963 (©2007 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York)
ANNI ALBERS
WALL HANGING, silk, 1926 (©2007 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York)
ANNI ALBERS
THICKLY SETTLED, cotton and jute, 1957 (Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, Director’s Purchase Fund ©2008 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York)
"Our experiments in surface effects are therefore to be understood only as exercises to increase our awareness of surface activities, since the actual work of weaving is only in part concerned with the epidermis of the cloth. The inner structure together with its effects on the outside are the main considerations. Embroidery, on the other hand, is a working of just the surface, since it does not demand that we give thought to the engineering task of building up a fabric. For this very reason, however, it is in danger of losing itself in decorativeness; for the discipline of constructing is a helpful corrective for the temptation to mere decoration."
- Anni Albers, TACTILE SENSIBILITY in ANNI ALBERS: SELECTED WRITINGS ON DESING, Wesleyan University Press, 2000.
