Squares & Other Shapes: with Josef Albers (First Concepts with Fine Artists)

Learn the wonder of different shapes through the art of Josef Albers. This is part of the Phaidon First Concepts with Fine Artists. 

Teachers and parents can dive into this book and make art fun, relatable and colourful.

Squares & Other Shapes uses the vivid artworks of Josef Albers to guide children through a wide range of geometrics, one artwork per page, beginning with squares and returning to them as a familiar refrain throughout. The variations between the vibrant shapes adds to the book’s visual richness, and the accompanying text provides a relatable and engaging commentary that will encourage discussion.

Josef Albers was a leading pioneer of 20th-century Modernism, best known for his Homages to the Square paintings, and his publication Interaction of Colour. Albers was a teacher, a writer, a painter, a theorist, and, in this groundbreaking book, his influential art is used to teach shapes, one of the most important concepts for young children to learn.

Ages 1-3