Title Color and culture : practice and meaning from antiquity to abstraction / John Gage

Published Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 1999 ©1993

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Description 335 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 28 cm Contents 1. The Classical Inheritance -- 2. The Fortunes of Apelles -- 3. Light from the East -- 4. A Dionysian Aesthetic -- 5. Colour-Language, Colour-Symbols -- 6. Unweaving the Rainbow -- 7. Disegno versus Colore -- 8. The Peacock's Tail -- 9. Colour under Control: The Reign of Newton -- 10. The Palette: 'Mother of All Colours' -- 11. Colours of the Mind: Goethe's Legacy -- 12. The Substance of Colour -- 13. The Sound of Colour -- 14. Colour without Theory: The Role of Abstraction Notes First published 1993. First published in paperback 1999 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-323) and index Subject Color (Philosophy) -- History. Color in art. Colors. ISBN 0520222253 9780520222250

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