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Colour and Culture - Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction
Title:
Colour and Culture - Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction
Gage, John
$68.00

University of California 1999
Colour is fundamental to life and art yet so diverse that it has seldom been studied in a comprehensive way. This ground-breaking analysis of colour in Western culture from the ancient Greeks to the late twentieth century is a John Gage triumph. With originality and erudition, he describes the first theories of colour articulated by philosophers from Democritus to Aristotle and the subsequent attempts by the Romans and their Renaissance disciples to organize colour systematically or endow it with symbolic power. The place of colour in religion, Newton's analysis of the spectrum, Goethe's colour theory, and the theories and practices that have attempted to unite color and music are among the intriguing topics this award-winning book illuminates. With a large classified bibliography, discursive footnotes, and an exhaustive index, "Colour and Culture" is an invaluable resource for artists, historians of art and culture, psychologists, linguists, and anyone fascinated by this most inescapable and evocative element of our perceptions...

Second hand Paperback
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ISBN: 
9780520222253 or 9780500278185
SKU:
76388