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Colour and meaning : art, science and symbolism
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ISBN: 0500237670 Year: 1999 Publisher: London : Thames and Hudson,

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Is color just a physiological reaction, a sensation resulting from different wave lengths of light on receptors in our eyes? Does color have an effect on our feelings? The phenomenon of color is examined in extraordinary new ways in John Gage's latest book. His pioneering study is informed by the conviction that color is a contingent, historical occurrence whose meaning, like language, lies in the particular contexts in which it is experienced and interpreted. Gage covers topics as diverse as the optical mixing techniques implicit in mosaic; medieval color-symbolism; the equipment of the manuscript illuminator's workshop, the color languages and color practices of Latin America at the time of the Spanish Conquest; the earliest history of the prism; and the color ideas of Goethe and Runge, Blake and Turner, Seurat and Matisse. From the perspective of the history of science, Gage considers the bearing of Newton's optical discoveries on painting, the chemist Chevreul's contact with painters and the growing interest of experimental psychologists in the topic of color in the late nineteenth century, particularly in relation to synaesthesia. He includes an invaluable overview of the twentieth-century literature that bears on the historical interpretation of color in art. Gage's explorations further extend the concepts he addressed in his prize-winning book, Color and Culture. Includes information on Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, rainbow, Ogden Rood, Camille Pissaro, Sir Isaac Newton, Piet Mondrian, Henri Matisse, Edouard Manet, Kasimir Malevich, light, Leonardo da Vinci, Wassily Kandinsky, Charles Henry, Hermann von Helmholz, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Field, Felix Feneon, G.T. Fechner, the four elements, Theo van Doesburg, Renee Descartes, Giovanni Battista Della Porta, Robert Delaunay, Eugene Delacroix, darkness, Michel Eugene Chevreul, Charles Blanc, William Blake, Bauhaus, Roger Bacon, Aristotle, Alhazen (Ibn al Haytham), Albertus Magnus, Leon Battista Alberti, Josef Albers, etc. Includes information on Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, rainbow, Ogden Rood, Camille Pissaro, Sir Isaac Newton, Piet Mondrian, Henri Matisse, Edouard Manet, Kasimir Malevich, light, Leonardo da Vinci, Wassily Kandinsky, Charles Henry, Hermann von Helmholz, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Field, Felix Feneon, G.T. Fechner, the four elements, Theo van Doesburg, Renee Descartes, Giovanni Battista Della Porta, Robert Delaunay, Eugene Delacroix, darkness, Michel Eugene Chevreul, Charles Blanc, William Blake, Bauhaus, Roger Bacon, Aristotle, Alhazen (Ibn al Haytham), Albertus Magnus, Leon Battista Alberti, Josef Albers, black blue, brown, gold, green, grey, purple, red, white, yellow, warm, cool, hot, cold, color of flowers, etc.

Colour and meaning : art, science, and symbolism
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ISBN: 0500282153 9780500282151 9780520226111 Year: 2001 Publisher: London: Thames and Hudson,

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Is colour just a physiological phenomenon ? Does it have an effect on feelings ? This vividly written book, the sequel to the award-winning Colour and Culture, is ultimately informed by the conviction that the meaning of colour lies in the particular historical context in which it is experienced and interpreted.John Gage explores the mysteries of themes as diverse as the optical mixing techniques implicit in mosaic, colour-languages in Latin America at the time of the Spanish Conquest and the ideas of Goethe and Runge, Blake and Turner. For students and lecturers in the history of art and culture, for artists and designers, and for psychologists and scientists with a special interest in the subject, John Gage has produced a compelling study of the meaning of colour through the ages.

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