The Ethics of Perception: Josef Albers in the United States

• Autores: Eva Díaz
• Localización: Art bulletin, ISSN 0004-3079, Vol. 90, Nº 2, 2008, págs. 260-285
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • To Josef Albers, art was the experimental arm of culture, investigating better forms that are the precondition of cultural production and progress. Albers’s largely unpublished writings and practical teaching materials reveal that he encouraged a reflexive relation between better art production and a better social performance. He claimed that “studying art is to be on an ethical basis.” Better design thus alters habits of perception and can improve society. A nervy claim, and yet a thoughtful argument for artistic responsibility: Albers’s ethics of perception maintains that the arrangement of a work of art mirrors the way one organizes life.