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Interaction of Color
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(Josef Albers, 1963)
Seeing is not passive; it’s an act of design.
First published in 1963, Interaction of Color remains one of the most timeless explorations of visual perception.
Josef Albers turns color from a static property into a living, relational system. Through deceptively simple exercises, he shows how color deceives, transforms, and depends entirely on its context — and on the viewer.
This is not a book to be read once. It’s a manual for learning to see — to train the eye to question what feels obvious. Every page invites you to slow down, to experiment, to realize that color has no fixed truth.
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In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is — as it physically is.
