Anni Albers – Notebook 1970 – 1980 Published by David Zwirner

The product is a trade paperback book titled “Anni Albers : Notebook 1970-1980” published by David Zwirner in 2017. The book features a facsimile of the only known notebook of legendary artist Anni Albers, offering insight into her working process. The notebook contains intricate drawings for her large body of graphic work, as well as studies for her late knot drawings. It follows Albers’ deliberations and progression as a draftsman in her original form, revealing the way she made complex patterns in a visually dramatic and mysteriously beautiful series of geometric arrangements. The afterword by Brenda Danilowitz, Chief Curator of The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, contextualizes the notebook and explores the role studies played in the development of Albers’ work.