Pátrai
Pátrai or Patras , Lat. Patrae, city (1991 pop. 153,344), capital of Akhaía prefecture, central Greece, in the Peloponnesus. It is a port on the Gulf of Pátrai, which connects the Gulf of Corinth with the Ionian Sea. Pátrai is a commercial, industrial, and transportation center that ships currants, tobacco, wine, olive oil, and sheepskins. There is paper and textile manufacturing. A university is there.
The city was allied with Athens in the Peloponnesian War and became (3d cent. BC) a leading member of the Second Achaean League . It led a revolt against the Macedonians in 218 BC but sank into insignificance before the Roman conquest (146 BC) of Greece; it was revived (late 1st cent. BC) as a Roman military colony by Augustus and soon flourished as a port.
Pátrai was conquered by the French nobleman Geoffroi I de Villehardouin in 1205 and was included in the Latin principality of Achaia. The city was captured by the Ottoman Turks in 1458, passed to Venice in 1687, and was retaken by the Turks in 1715. It was destroyed (1821) in the Greek War of Independence and was rebuilt on a rectangular pattern by Count Capo d'Istria in 1829.
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Josef Albers: To Open Eyes
Magazine article from: The Architects' Journal; 5/24/2007; ; 700+ words
; Josef Albers: To Open Eyes. The Bauhaus, Black...westwards from Europe to the United States. Josef Albers was one of this group, and the trajectory...Teaching design: A short history of Josef Albers'. On the armature that this establishes...
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Josef Albers and Yuko Shiraishi at Leonard Hutton.
Magazine article from: Art in America; 10/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; What is the legacy of Josef Albers? As a teacher at the Bauhaus...discovered a deep affinity for both Josef and Anni Albers's work. The Hutton exhibition...the dealer's collection of Josef Albers paintings. The result was this...
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Learning through color.(Josef Albers: To Open Eyes - The Bauhaus, Black Mountain College, and Yale; Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today; Colour)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 5/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; Josef Albers: To Open Eyes; The Bauhaus, Black Mountain College, and Yale, by...directly in touch with modern life. A similar desire is recounted in Josef Albers: To Open Eyes. In this monumental monograph about Albers as a teacher...
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Josef Albers. (Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York)
Magazine article from: Artforum International; 11/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; Josef Albers' photographs and his early work with glass...painting. It was not only Germany that Albers left behind when he fled the Nazis and came...all three facets of his career, is why Albers felt compelled to limit his production in...
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Josef Albers - Formulation: Articulation
Magazine article from: The Architects' Journal; 6/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; Josef Albers - Formulation: Articulation Text by T G...suggests why this book is so desirable: 'Albers' images have been printed on 200 gsm Gardapat...capture the fine discriminations that were Albers' longtime concern. Unlike Le Corbusier...
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Josef Albers: To Open Eyes.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Arts & Activities; 2/1/2007; ; 623 words
; JOSEF ALBERS: To Open Eyes (2006; $75), by Frederick...descriptive materials are informative: "Josef Albers (1888--1976) has long been admired...life." It is interesting to note that Josef Albers began his teaching in an elementary school...
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The first couple of modern design; She worked in textiles, he in paint and glass, but Anni and Josef Albers shared a Bauhaus sensibility.(FEATURES)(ARTS)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor; 10/22/2004; 700+ words
; ...products, design alchemists Josef and Anni Albers elevated the simplest materials...conversation between them. "Josef and Anni Albers: Designs for Living" is...exhibition curator and head of The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. "This is the...
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ABSTRACT ARTIST JOSEF ALBERS TAKES A SQUARE LOOK AT COLOR
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 3/5/2004; ; 700+ words
; Josef Albers practiced the science of art. One of the...and teachers of art in the 20th century, Albers was something of a perceptual psychologist...What do those pairings do to the viewer? Albers's greatest body of work, which he undertook...
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Josef Albers
Magazine article from: Artforum; 1/1/2005; ; 311 words
; ...Jasper Johns once took a color test designed by Josef Albers and reported back: "Mr. Albers, I took your color test and got all the answers wrong." Albers beamed, "Dot's vunderful. You got 100 percent...
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Albers Mural Needs a Home.(MetLife Inc. plans uncertain for the Josef Albers work)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 9/1/2001; ; 641 words
; ...site-specific work by the German-born modernist Josef Albers has been removed from the lobby of New York's MetLife...critical to the work's impact. Before his death in 1976, Albers drew up exact specifications for the work. Thus, it...
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Josef Albers
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Josef Albers Josef Albers (1888-1976) was one of the leading artists and art and design teachers of the 20th century. His emphasis was on color as a medium in its own right. Josef Albers was born in 1888 in Bottrop in the Ruhr District of...
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Albers, Josef
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
Albers, Josef (1888–1976). German-born...Bauhaus was closed by the Nazis in 1933, Albers emigrated to the USA—he was...received numerous academic awards. Although Albers had made lithographs and woodcuts in his...
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Robert Rauschenberg
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Rauschenberg returned to America to study with Josef Albers at Black Mountain College in North Carolina. Albers stressed design as a discipline, and Rauschenberg...needed such training. He later admitted that Albers was the teacher most important to his development...
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Anuszkiewicz, Richard
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
...studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art, 1948–53, and then at Yale University under Josef Albers , 1953–5. Albers stimulated his interest in the effects of colour on perception, but it was not until about 1960 that...
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Op art
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
...than this, in about 1960, the works and theories of Josef Albers being among the main sources. The devices employed by...1930– ), a former pupil of Albers; his work is typically concerned with radiating expanses...
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