Colour and meaning : art, science and symbolism / John Gage
Author(s): Gage, John
Library Item Details
- Main Title
- Colour and meaning : art, science and symbolism
- Author(s)
- Gage, John
- Publisher
- London : Thames & Hudson, 2006
- Collation
- 320 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits
26 cm - ISBN
- 9780500282151
- Dewey Class
- 701.85
- Contents
- Part 1: The contexts of colour -- Colour and culture -- Colour in art and its literature. Part 2: Colour in history: relative and absolute -- Colour-words and colour-patches -- Ghiberti and light -- Color Colorado -- The fool's paradise -- Newton and painting -- Blake's Newton -- Magilphs and mystery -- Turner as a colourist -- "Two different worlds": Runge, Goethe and the sphere of colour -- Mood indigo: from the Blue Flower to the Blue Rider -- Chevreul between classicism and romanticism -- The technique of Seurat -- Seurat's silence -- Matisse's black light -- Colour as language in early abstract painting -- A psychological background for early modern colour -- Making sense of colour: the synaesthetic dimension.
- Language
- English
- Subject
- Color in art
- BRN
- 226
Availability
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Rotunda Library & Archive
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Books
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701.85 GAG
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