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Colour and meaning : art, science and symbolism / John Gage.

By: Gage, John, 1938-2012.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Thames and Hudson, 1999Description: 320 p. : col. ill. ; 27cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0500237670; 0500282153.Subject(s): Color in art | Color -- Psychological aspects | Color -- Physiological effectDDC classification: 752
Contents:
Introduction -- Part One -- The contexts of colour -- Colour and culture -- Colour in art and its literature -- Part Two -- Colour in history - relative and absolute -- Colour-words and colour-patches -- Ghiberti and light -- Color Colorado - cross-cultural studies in the ancient Americas -- The fool's paradise -- Newton and painting -- Blake's Newton -- Magilphs and mysteries -- Turner as a colourist -- 'Two different worlds' - Runge, Goethe and the Sphere of colour -- Mood indigo - from the blue flower to the blue rider -- Chevreul between classicism and romanticism -- The technique of seurat - a reappraisal -- Seurat's silence -- Matisse's black light -- Colour as language in early abstract painting -- A psychological background for early modern colour -- Making sense of colour - the synaesthetic dimension.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
General Lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 752 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00115944
General Lending MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending 752 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00152408
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Is colour just a physiological phenomenon? Does colour have an effect on feelings? This study argues that the meaning of colour, like language, lies in the particular historical contexts in which it is experienced.

Bibliography: (pages 306-311) and index.

Introduction -- Part One -- The contexts of colour -- Colour and culture -- Colour in art and its literature -- Part Two -- Colour in history - relative and absolute -- Colour-words and colour-patches -- Ghiberti and light -- Color Colorado - cross-cultural studies in the ancient Americas -- The fool's paradise -- Newton and painting -- Blake's Newton -- Magilphs and mysteries -- Turner as a colourist -- 'Two different worlds' - Runge, Goethe and the Sphere of colour -- Mood indigo - from the blue flower to the blue rider -- Chevreul between classicism and romanticism -- The technique of seurat - a reappraisal -- Seurat's silence -- Matisse's black light -- Colour as language in early abstract painting -- A psychological background for early modern colour -- Making sense of colour - the synaesthetic dimension.

CIT Module ARTS 7015 - Supplementary reading.

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