Jeffrey Saletnik is assistant professor of art history at Indiana University Bloomington. He is coeditor of Bauhaus Construct: Fashioning Identity, Discourse, and Modernism.

"[In this book] we learn something profound about how teaching was reinvented in the twentieth century as a process of form-creation that unfolded across both still and moving images. . . . Saletnik’s first chapter, an indispensable overview of Albers’ pedagogy, traces a procedural conception of art education as pioneered by the German school teacher. . . . Saletnik makes the convincing case that Albers’ encounter with the learning aids of the German education system, in his training as a grammar school teacher, prompted him to reflect on this conventional method of teaching and to transform ‘the structures of his own education into an analytical subject’. . . . While Josef Albers’s pedagogy has been the subject of other studies . . . Saletnik moves beyond these precedents by mounting a case for the dynamic interplay between art pedagogy and art making."

• Introduction: “Bye, bye, Bauhaus”A Linear Constructions1 From Object to Process: On Albers’s Pedagogic FormsLearning by DoingProgressive EducationEducating AlbersPedagogic FormB Photography2 Fold/Manifold: On Eva Hesse and AlbersLightweight and Weighted DownFolding and UnfoldingC Painting3 Color Aid: On Richard Serra and AlbersWorking MethodsDisciplined DisorientationEpilogue: PlaytimeAcknowledgmentsNotesSelected BibliographyImage CreditsIndex

Jeffrey Saletnik is assistant professor of art history at Indiana University Bloomington. He is coeditor of Bauhaus Construct: Fashioning Identity, Discourse, and Modernism.

"[In this book] we learn something profound about how teaching was reinvented in the twentieth century as a process of form-creation that unfolded across both still and moving images. . . . Saletnik’s first chapter, an indispensable overview of Albers’ pedagogy, traces a procedural conception of art education as pioneered by the German school teacher. . . . Saletnik makes the convincing case that Albers’ encounter with the learning aids of the German education system, in his training as a grammar school teacher, prompted him to reflect on this conventional method of teaching and to transform ‘the structures of his own education into an analytical subject’. . . . While Josef Albers’s pedagogy has been the subject of other studies . . . Saletnik moves beyond these precedents by mounting a case for the dynamic interplay between art pedagogy and art making."

• Introduction: “Bye, bye, Bauhaus”A Linear Constructions1 From Object to Process: On Albers’s Pedagogic FormsLearning by DoingProgressive EducationEducating AlbersPedagogic FormB Photography2 Fold/Manifold: On Eva Hesse and AlbersLightweight and Weighted DownFolding and UnfoldingC Painting3 Color Aid: On Richard Serra and AlbersWorking MethodsDisciplined DisorientationEpilogue: PlaytimeAcknowledgmentsNotesSelected BibliographyImage CreditsIndex

Jeffrey Saletnik is assistant professor of art history at Indiana University Bloomington. He is coeditor of Bauhaus Construct: Fashioning Identity, Discourse, and Modernism.

"[In this book] we learn something profound about how teaching was reinvented in the twentieth century as a process of form-creation that unfolded across both still and moving images. . . . Saletnik’s first chapter, an indispensable overview of Albers’ pedagogy, traces a procedural conception of art education as pioneered by the German school teacher. . . . Saletnik makes the convincing case that Albers’ encounter with the learning aids of the German education system, in his training as a grammar school teacher, prompted him to reflect on this conventional method of teaching and to transform ‘the structures of his own education into an analytical subject’. . . . While Josef Albers’s pedagogy has been the subject of other studies . . . Saletnik moves beyond these precedents by mounting a case for the dynamic interplay between art pedagogy and art making."

• Introduction: “Bye, bye, Bauhaus”A Linear Constructions1 From Object to Process: On Albers’s Pedagogic FormsLearning by DoingProgressive EducationEducating AlbersPedagogic FormB Photography2 Fold/Manifold: On Eva Hesse and AlbersLightweight and Weighted DownFolding and UnfoldingC Painting3 Color Aid: On Richard Serra and AlbersWorking MethodsDisciplined DisorientationEpilogue: PlaytimeAcknowledgmentsNotesSelected BibliographyImage CreditsIndex