Colour in Art

Name: Colour in Art
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ISBN: 9780500203941

ISBN-10: 0500203946

ISBN-13: 9780500203941

Edition: 2006

Authors: John Gage, Kelly Grovier

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A wide-ranging and engaging introduction to the place and power of color in art. Over the course of the past few centuries, the complex phenomenon of color has received detailed treatment from the perspectives of physics, chemistry, physiology, psychology, linguisitics, and philosophy. However, visual artiststhe people who work most closely with colorhave rarely been asked for their opinions about this ubiquitous but insolubly mysterious subject. In his new book John Gage, author of the award-winning Color and Culture, focuses on the thoughts and practices of artists. Color in Art is concerned with the history of color, but is not itself a history; instead each chapter develops a theme…

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List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 8.23" wide x 6.06" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 1.100




Light from colour - colour from light



A psychology of colour?



The shape of colour



The health of colours



Languages of colour



Can colours signify?



The union of the senses



Colour trouble