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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Thames & Hudson, c1999.Description: 320p. : ill. (some col.), facsims., ports. ; 27 cmISBN:
  • 9780500237670:
  • 0500237670
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 752
Contents:
The contexts of colour -- Colour and culture -- Colour in art and its literature -- 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
General Lending Wexford Campus Library Wexford General Lending 752 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 61276

CW038

Bibliography: p. 306-311. - Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 306-311) and index.

The contexts of colour -- Colour and culture -- Colour in art and its literature -- 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.

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