Interaction of Color

Name: Interaction of Color
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ISBN: 9780300115956

ISBN-10: 0300115954

ISBN-13: 9780300115956

Edition: 2006

Authors: Josef Albers, Nicholas Fox Weber

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Josef Albers's "Interaction of Color" is a masterwork in twentieth-century art education. Conceived as a handbook and teaching aid for artists, instructors, and students, this timeless book presents Albers's unique ideas of color experimentation in a way that is valuable to specialists as well as to a larger audience. Originally published by Yale University Press in 1963 as a limited silkscreen edition with 150 color plates, "Interaction of Color" first appeared in paperback in 1971, featuring ten representative color studies chosen by Albers. The paperback has remained in print ever since and is one of the most influential resources on color for countless readers. This new paperback…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 5/15/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English




Color recollection - visual memory



Color reading and contexture



Why color paper - instead of pigment and paint



A color has many faces - the relativity of color



Lighter and/or darker - light intensity, lightness



1 color appears as 2 - looking like the reversed grounds



2 different colors look alike - subtraction of color



Why color deception? : after-image, simultaneous contrast



Color mixture in paper - illusion of transparence



Factual mixtures - additive and subtractive



Transparence and space-illusion



Optical mixture - after-image revised



The Bezold effect



Color intervals and transformation



The middle mixture again - intersecting colors



Color juxtaposition - harmony - quantity



Film color and volume color - 2 natural effects



Free studies - a challenge to imagination



The masters - color instrumentation



The Weber-Fechner law - the measure in mixture



From color temperance to humidity in color



Vibrating boundaries - enforced contours



Equal light intensity - vanishing boundaries



Color theories - color systems



On teaching color - some color terms



In lieu of a bibliography - my first collaborators