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Color and culture : practice and meaning from antiquity to abstraction
- Title
- Color and culture : practice and meaning from antiquity to abstraction / John Gage.
- Author
- Gage, John.
- Publication
- Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, 1999, ©1993.
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Details
- Description
- 335 pages : illustrations (some color); 28 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-323) and index.
- Contents
- The classical inheritance -- The fortunes of Apelles -- Light from the east -- A Dionysian aesthetic -- Colour-language, colour-symbols -- Unweaving the rainbow -- Disegno verus Colore -- The peacock's tail -- Colour under control: the reign of Newton -- The palette: 'mother of all colours' -- Colours of the mind: Goethe's legacy -- The substance of colour -- The sound of colour -- Colour without theory: the role of abstraction.
- ISBN
- 0520222253 (pbk.)
- 9780520222250 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 99950233647
- OCLC
- ocm62878675\
- 62878675
- SCSB-5654937
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries