Intersecting Colors: Josef Albers and His ContemporariesJosef Albers (1888 1976) was an artist, teacher, and seminal thinker on the perception of color. A member of the Bauhaus who fled to the U. S. in 1933, his ideas about how the mind understands color influenced generations of students, inspired countless artists, and anticipated the findings of neuroscience in the latter half of the twentieth century. With contributions from the disciplines of art history, the intellectual and cultural significance of