Anni Albers, East Asia, and the Practice of Attentive Passiveness

Anni Albers, East Asia, and the Practice of Attentive Passiveness
Jeffrey Saletnik
Publication Date
2026
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Edited by Brenda Danilowitz and Fabienne Eggelhöfer

Anni Albers: Constructing Textiles explores the ideas of materiality, construction, and architecture across her body of work, establishing her legacy as a thinker, theoretician, and innovator. The book’s essays include essential writings by Albers herself on the making and meaning of textiles, as well as new pieces by Glenn Adamson on her relationship to architecture, Karis Medina on the material and technique of her weavings, Amy Jean Porter on her writing, and Jeffrey Saletnik on East Asian influences in Albers’s work and thinking.”

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Saletnik, Jeffrey. “Anni Albers, East Asia, and the Practice of Attentive Passiveness.” Anni Albers: Constructing Textiles, edited by Brenda Danilowitz and Fabienne Eggelhöfer, 173-81. Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag with Yale University Press, 2026.