Colour : art & science / edited by Trevor Lamb and Janine Bourriau.

Contributor(s): Lamb, Trevor | Bourriau, Janine .

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BookSeries: Darwin College lectures: Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995Description: 237 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.ISBN: 0521496454 (hbk.); 0521499631 (pbk.).Subject(s): Color

DDC classification: 752

Contents:

Contents: The history of colour in art / David Bomford -- Colour for the painter / Bridget Riley -- Light and colour / Malcolm Longair -- Colour mechanisms of the eye / Denis Baylor -- Seeing colour / John Mollon -- Colour in nature / Peter Parks -- Colour and culture / John Gage -- Colour in language / John Lyons.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Lending	MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending	752 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		00005883

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Although we experience colour all the time, do we really understand colour? Three hundred years ago Isaac Newton showed that white light is composed of all the colours of the spectrum yet does this provide us with insight into our own personal experience of colour sensation? To answer such questions on the nature of colour this volume gathers the combined knowledge of physics, biology, history and art. It provides an exciting exploration of colour, from the diverse perspectives of experts in eight different fields of study. Their essays take us on a journey both through the sciences and the world of fine art, and they combine to give a full and rewarding view of colour.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Preface
1 The history of colour in art David Bomford
2 Colour for the painter Bridget Riley
3 Light and colour Malcolm Longair
4 Colour mechanisms of the eye Denis Baylor
5 Seeing colour John Mollon
6 Colour in nature Peter Parkes
7 Colour and culture John Gage
8 Colour in language John Lyons

Reviews provided by Syndetics

CHOICE Review

This book compiles eight essays on color from eight different points of view: restorer, artist, physicist, physiologist, psychologist, naturalist, historian, and linguist. The authors are experts in their fields and often (especially the scientists) are involved in recent experimental research on their topics. But the essays are not therefore directed to specialists; all are clearly written summaries of the subjects, jam-packed with fascinating information, and yet often drawing on the specific work of the authors. Several essays overlap; e.g., there is a conceptual continuum among the physicist's discussion of light and color, the physiologist's explanation of color mechanisms of the eye, and the experimental psychologist's account of how we see color. But there are gaps; e.g., the psychologist's essay is strongly neurological and thus there is no review from a more phenomenological viewpoint. Moreover, despite the unity of the topic "color" and the continuity across many essays, the assertion in the introduction that the essays entail a "convergence of ideas from disparate approaches" is questionable. This reviewer, for one, sees among these reviews no evidence of either holism or reductionism. Undergraduate; graduate; faculty; general. D. Topper; University of Winnipeg