CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 10/22/2014

Josef Albers: Minimal Means, Maximum Effect

“Through works of art we are permanently reminded to be balanced, within ourselves and with others; to have respect for proportion, that is, to keep relationship. It teaches us to be disciplined, and selective between quantity and quality. Art teaches the educational world that it is to be too poor to collect only knowledge; furthermore, that economy is not a matter of statistics, but of sufficient proportion between effort and effect.” This excerpt from Josef Albers’ 1940 lecture, “The Meaning of Art,” at Black Mountain College, and “Homage to the Square, Guarded” (1952) are reproduced from Josef Albers: Minimal Means, Maximum Effect, the superb new release from La Fábrica/Fundación Juan March.