Color and culture : practice and meaning from antiquity to abstraction

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Name/Title

Color and culture : practice and meaning from antiquity to abstraction

Entry/Object ID

NK1549.G34

Description

Color is fundamental to life and art yet so diverse that it has seldom been studied in a comprehensive way. This ground-breaking analysis of color 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 color articulated by philosophers from Democritus to Aristotle and the subsequent attempts by the Romans and their Renaissance disciples to organize color systematically or endow it with symbolic power. The place of color in religion, Newton's analysis of the spectrum, Goethe's color 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, Color 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.

Collection

Carol Westfall Collection

Lexicon

Search Terms

color--philosophy, color--psychological aspects, color in art, symbolism of colors

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Category

Book

Book Details

Author

John Gage

Publisher

Little, Brown

Place Published

City

Boston

State/Province

Massachusetts

Country

United States of America

Continent

North America

Date Published

1993

Call No.

NK1549.G34

ISBN

821220438, 9780821220436

LCCN

93077614

Notes

Length: 335

General Notes

Note Type

Contents

Note

1. The Classical Inheritance -- 2. The Fortunes of Apelles -- 3. Light from the East -- 4. A Dionysian Aesthetic -- 5. Colour-Language, Colour-Symbols -- 6. Unweaving the Rainbow -- 7. Disegno versus Colore -- 8. The Peacock's Tail -- 9. Colour under Control: The Reign of Newton -- 10. The Palette: 'Mother of All Colours' -- 11. Colours of the Mind: Goethe's Legacy -- 12. The Substance of Colour -- 13. The Sound of Colour -- 14. Colour without Theory: The Role of Abstraction.