Color and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to AbstractionColor is fundamental to life and art yet so diverse that it has seldom been studied in a comprehensive way. This ground-breaking analysis of color in Western culture from the ancient Greeks to the late twentieth century is a John Gage triumph. With originality and erudition, he describes the first theories of color articulated by philosophers from Democritus to Aristotle and the subsequent attempts by the Romans and their Renaissance disciples to organize color systematically or endow it with symbolic power. The place of color in religion, Newton's analysis of the spectrum, Goethe's color theory, and the theories and practices that have attempted to unite color and music are among the intriguing topics this award-winning book illuminates. With a large classified bibliography, discursive footnotes, and an exhaustive index, Color and Culture is an invaluable resource for artists, historians of art and culture, psychologists, linguists, and anyone fascinated by this most inescapable and evocative element of our perceptions. |
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... experienced both indoors and out . It is one of the first of such circles to place complementary colors opposite each other : blue ( 1 ) opposite orange ( VII / VI ) , yellow ( V ) opposite violet ( XI ) , and red ( VIII ) opposite sea ...
... experienced both indoors and out . It is one of the first of such circles to place complementary colors opposite each other : blue ( 1 ) opposite orange ( VII / VI ) , yellow ( V ) opposite violet ( XI ) , and red ( VIII ) opposite sea ...
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Contents
Introduction | 7 |
The Fortunes of Apelles | 29 |
Light from the East | 39 |
A Dionysian Aesthetic | 69 |
ColourLanguage ColourSymbols | 79 |
Unweaving the Rainbow | 93 |
Disegno versus Colore | 117 |
The Reign of Newton | 153 |
Mother of All Colours | 177 |
Goethes Legacy | 191 |
The Substance of Colour | 213 |
The Sound of Colour | 227 |
The Role of Abstraction | 247 |
Acknowledgments | 269 |
Common terms and phrases
aesthetic Albers Alberti alchemical ancient Apelles argued Aristotle artists Bauhaus beautiful black and white Blanc bright Byzantine Castel Cézanne Chevreul chiaroscuro Christ chromatic church circle colouristic complementary context contrast dark decoration Delacroix developed discussion early effect espec example experience four-colour French fresco Gage glass glazing Goethe Goethe's Gogh gold Greek green grey grisaille harmony heraldic hues ibid idea Isidore of Seville Italian Josef Albers Kandinsky Klee landscape late later Leonardo light materials Matisse medieval Middle Ages mixed mixture modern Mondrian mosaic musical nature Newton notion optical Opticks orange Ostwald painter painterly painting palette Paris perhaps picture pigments Pliny purple rainbow Ravenna reference Renaissance Roman Rubens scale seems seen Seurat shows stones Suger's suggests symbolic technique Theodoric of Freiberg theory of colour Titian tonal tones tradition treatise ultramarine Vasari Venetian vermilion violet von Maur yellow and blue