Colour and meaning : art, science and symbolism (Record no. 69477)
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| fixed length control field | 04278 a2200157 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780500282151 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 701.85 |
| Item number | GAG |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Gage, John |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Colour and meaning : art, science and symbolism |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Thames & Hudson |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | London |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2019 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 320p. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Contents<br/>Introduction 7<br/>Part One<br/>1 The Contexts of Colour 11<br/>The history of art as a unifying subject • Artefacts and attitudes • The harmony of colours<br/>The non-standard observer· Colour in context<br/>2 Colour and Culture 21<br/>Colour-usage and colour-systems • The spectrum and the natural world· 'Basic Color Terms'<br/>A disdain for colour • Colour-psychology: chromotherapy and the Luscher Test High culture, popular culture<br/>3 Colour in Art and its Literature 34<br/>The politics of colour • Colour and gender • The formalist tradition · The substance of colour Theories and assumptions • Alberti to Durer • Science into art • Science - 'the taste of all minds'<br/>Twentieth-century theory • Colour as content • Colour-change: shot fabric and modelling • Colour and<br/>symbol • Reception and response • Theories of harmony • Representing colour • The history of colour<br/>Part Two<br/>4 Colour in History - Relative and Absolute 67<br/>Iconography in the early Middle Ages: brightness versus hue • Colour as symbol Red and purple in the scale of colours • Medieval blues • The point of pointillism • The mind of the mosaicist • Atoms and mixtures • The luminous imperative<br/>5 Colour-words and Colour-patches 90<br/>Scribes and spectacles • Nequam's colour-terms • Marginal notes • The medieval palette Red and green: the psychological effects of colour<br/>6 Ghiberti and Light 98<br/>Ghiberti and gemstones • The art of glass • The humanists and light<br/>7 Color Colorado - Cross-cultural Studies in the Ancient Americas 105<br/>'Basic Color Terms' - the problems • Colour-terms and colour-products Colour and direction • The significance of red<br/>8 The Fool's Paradise 121<br/>The hexagonal stone • The reduction of means • The prism in the sixteenth century Scarmiglioni on colour • Glass versus crystal • The spectral colours<br/>9 Newton and Painting 134<br/>Doctrines of mixture • In search of harmony - printing the primaries • The principles of harmony: colour and music • Harmony and complementarity<br/>10 Blake's Newton 144<br/>Adapting Michelangelo • Blake's interest in optics • The material bow<br/>11 Magilphs and Mysteries 153<br/>The lure of Venetian colour • The Secret exposed • The aftermath<br/>12 Turner as a Colourist 162<br/>Local colour • Primaries - the 'colour-beginning' • Light and colour • The relativity of colour<br/>13 'Two Different Worlds' - Runge, Goethe and the Sphere of Colour 169<br/>Goethe and Runge • Steffens, Schiffermiiller and the Farben-Kugel The suppression of symbolism<br/>14 Mood Indigo - From the Blue Flower to the Blue Rider 185<br/>The blue flower • Gendering of blue • An anthropology of colour • Goethe 's following: symbol versus substance • Bocklin and Bezold • Experimental psychology: Fechner and Wundt Kandinsky and blue • Goethe in the twentieth century<br/>15 Chevreul between Classicism and Romanticism 196<br/>Chevreul and Vernet • Painting in fiat tints • Shades of grey<br/>16 The Technique of Seurat - A Reappraisal 209<br/>Seurat 's reading • Painterly experiment • The primacy of Chevreul<br/>17 Seurat's Silence 219<br/>Helmholtzian chromatics • Dubois-Pillet and Hayet • Vibert and science • Indefinable colour<br/>18 Matisse's Black Light 228<br/>Matisse 's Manet • Half a scientist • Dark light<br/>19 Colour as Language in Early Abstract Painting 241<br/>Colour in Theosophy and in Kandinsky • Nature and system<br/>The significance of primaries • A language of colour<br/>20 A Psychological Background for Early Modern Colour 249<br/>Kandinsky 's grammar of colour • Delaunay's practical theory<br/>Mondrian's primary order, Ostwald's theory of harmony<br/>21 Making Sense of Colour - The Synaesthetic Dimension 261<br/>Perception and deception • The unity ef the senses • Colour and physiology<br/>Synaesthesia and aesthetics<br/>Acknowledgments 270<br/>Notes to the Text 271<br/>Select Bibliography 306<br/>List of Illustrations 312<br/>Index 315 |
| 890 ## - Country | |
| Country | UK |
| 891 ## - Topic | |
| Topic | FD |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Color in art |
| -- | Color--Psychological aspects |
| -- | Symbolism in art |
| -- | Aesthetics |
| -- | Art--Technique |
| -- | Color (Philosophy) |
| -- | Color--Physiological effect |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Withdrawn status | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Date last borrowed | Cost, replacement price | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | Faculty of Design | CEPT Library | CEPT Library | 23/04/2022 | Design Book Studio | 1584.53 | 3 | 701.85 GAG | 023536 | 29/11/2023 | 08/11/2023 | 2112.70 | 23/04/2022 | Book |