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Conceived by the renowned Albers expert Nicholas Fox Weber, who directed the Albers Foundation for 20 years and knew the artist well,&nbsp;<strong><em>Spirituality and Rigor<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;presents a selection of work by Albers that illustrates his ascetic spirituality and his deeply felt Catholicism. The book stems in part from Fox Weber&#8217;s&nbsp;<em>The Sacred Modernist: Josef Albers as a Catholic Artist<\/em>, and is augmented with additional work by Fabio De Chirico. 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