Colour and meaning : art, science and symbolism / John Gage.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Thames & Hudson, 2000.Description: 320p. : ill. (some col.), facsims. (some col.), ports. ; 26 cmISBN:- 9780500282151 (pbk.) :
- 0500282153
- 701.85 GAG
- ND1488 .G344 2000
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Originally published: 1999.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 306-311) and index.
1. The contexts of colour -- 2. Colour and culture -- 3. Colour in art and its literature -- 4. Colour in history - relative and absolute -- 5. Colour-words and colour-patches -- 6. Ghiberti and light -- 7. Colour Colorado - cross-cultural studies in the ancient Americas -- 8. The fool's paradise -- 9. Newton and painting - 10. Blake's Newton - 11. Magilphs and mysteries - 12. Turner as a colourist - 13. " Two different worlds" - Runge, Goethe and the Sphere of colour - 14. Mood Indigo - from the Blue flower to the Blue Rider - 15. Chevreul between classicism and romanticism - 16. The technique of Seurat - A Reappraisal - 17. Seurat's silence - 18. Matisse's Black light - 19. Colour as language in early abstract painting - 20. A psychological background for early modern colour - 21. Making sense of colour - The synaesthetic dimension. Index.
Is colour just a physiological phenomenon? Does it affect feelings? The author argues that the meaning of colour is in its historical context. The essays consider the history of colour, symbolism, the techniques used for design, and psychology.