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Author : Oliver Leslie Reiser
Publisher : Health Research Books
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Color
ISBN : 0787313866
Author : Oliver Leslie Reiser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Color
ISBN : OCLC:80805658
Author : Oliver L. Reiser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258996324
This is a new release of the original 1928 edition.
Author : Oliver L. Reiser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258833859
This is a new release of the original 1928 edition.
Author : Oliver Leslie Reiser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Color
ISBN : UOM:39015041853253
Author : Spike Bucklow
Publisher : Marion Boyars Publishers
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSD:31822037388576
A fascinating look at how pigments were created, used, and revered in the Middle Ages.
Author : Roy Osborne
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781326459710
Updated to 2020, BOOKS ON COLOUR 1495-2015 offers quick and easy reference to 2,500 authors and editors and over 3,000 titles published by them. Following a concise historical survey of colour literature, authors are listed in an A-Z directory, together with titles, dates and places of publication, and translations for non-English titles. Biographical references are included where known. Chronological indexes of authors precede the bibliographical listing and alphabetical indexes of authors follow it. Publications are categorised under 27 general headings: Architecture, Chemistry, Classification, Colorants, Computing & Television, Decoration, Design, Dress & Cosmetics, Dyeing, Flora & Fauna, Food, Glass, History, Lighting, Metrology, Music, Optics, Painting, Perception, Philosophy, Photography & Cinema, Printing, Psychology, Symbolism, Terminology, Therapy, and Vision.
Author : John Gage
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520226119
"John Gage's Color and Meaning is full of ideas. . .He is one of the best writers on art now alive."--A. S. Byatt, Booker Prize winner
Author : Chloë N. Duckworth,Anne E. Sassin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351682961
The myriad ways in which colour and light have been adapted and applied in the art, architecture, and material culture of past societies is the focus of this interdisciplinary volume. Light and colour’s iconographic, economic, and socio-cultural implications are considered by established and emerging scholars including art historians, archaeologists, and conservators, who address the variety of human experience of these sensory phenomena. In today’s world it is the norm for humans to be surrounded by strong, artificial colours, and even to see colour as perhaps an inessential or surface property of the objects around us. Similarly, electric lighting has provided the power and ability to illuminate and manipulate environments in increasingly unprecedented ways. In the context of such a saturated experience, it becomes difficult to identify what is universal, and what is culturally specific about the human experience of light and colour. Failing to do so, however, hinders the capacity to approach how they were experienced by people of centuries past. By means of case studies spanning a broad historical and geographical context and covering such diverse themes as architecture, cave art, the invention of metallurgy, and medieval manuscript illumination, the contributors to this volume provide an up-to-date discussion of these themes from a uniquely interdisciplinary perspective. The papers range in scope from the meaning of colour in European prehistoric art to the technical art of the glazed tiles of the Shah mosque in Isfahan. Their aim is to explore a multifarious range of evidence and to evaluate and illuminate what is a truly enigmatic topic in the history of art and visual culture.
Author : Idries Trevathan
Publisher : Saqi Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780863561900
A unique investigation into the aesthetics of colour in Islamic art revealing its deeper symbolic and mystical meanings. The experience of colour in Islamic visual culture has historically been overlooked. In this new approach, Idries Trevathan examines the language of colour in Islamic art and architecture in dialogue with its aesthetic contexts, offering insights into the pre-modern Muslim experience of interpreting colour. The seventeenth-century Shah Mosque in Isfahan, Iran, represents one of the finest examples of colour-use on a grand scale. Here, Trevathan examines the philosophical and mystical traditions that formed the mosque's backdrop. He shows how careful combinations of colour and design proportions in Islamic patterns expresses knowledge beyond that experienced in the corporeal world, offering another language with which to know and experience God. Colour thus becomes a spiritual language, calling for a re-consideration of how we read Islamic aesthetics.
Author : Health Research Staff
Publisher : Health Research Books
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1996-09
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0787303917
1956 an exhaustive survey compiled from the works of 21 of the leading practitioners of Chromotherapy, including Edwin D. Babbitt, (Principles of Light & Color); condensed by an authority of color and the human aura. This is the best all around book on.
Author : Rowena Pattee Kryder
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1994-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1879181207
In her magnificent Sacred Ground to Sacred Space, visionary artist Rowena Pattee Kryder weaves together the scientific and spiritual traditions to reveal how the sacred is inherent in nature, and how we can get in touch with the qualities of subtle energy and light that are the power and codes for manifesting harmonious culture.
Author : Natasha Eaton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857722768
Colour, Art and Empire explores the entanglements of visual culture, enchanted technologies, waste, revolution, resistance and otherness. The materiality of colour offers a critical and timely force-field for approaching afresh debates on colonialism. This book analyses the formation of colour and politics as qualitative overspill. Colour can be viewed both as central and supplemental to early photography, the totem, alchemy, tantra and mysticism. From the eighteenth-century Austrian Empress Maria Theresa to Rabindranath Tagore and Gandhi, to 1970s Bollywood, colour makes us adjust our take on the politics of the human sensorium as defamiliarising and disorienting. The four chapters conjecture how European, Indian and Papua New Guinean artists, writers, scientists, activists, anthropologists or their subjects sought to negotiate the highly problematic stasis of colour in the repainting of modernity. Specifically, the thesis of this book traces Europeans' admiration and emulation of what they termed 'Indian colour' to its gradual denigration and the emergence of a 'space of exception'. This space of exception pitted industrial colours against the colonial desire for a massive workforce whose slave-like exploitation ignited riots against the production of pigments - most notably indigo. Feared or derided, the figure of the vernacular dyer constituted a force capable of dismantling the imperial machinations of colour. Colour thus wreaks havoc with Western expectations of biological determinism, objectivity and eugenics. Beyond the cracks of such discursive practice, colour becomes a sentient and nomadic retort to be pitted against a perceived colonial hegemony. The ideological reinvention of colour as a resource for independence struggles make it fundamental to multivalent genealogies of artistic and political action and their relevance to the present.
Author : Philip Ball
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226211695
"Looking closely at the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, Ball vividly brings to life the age when modern science began, a time that spans the lives of Galileo and Isaac Newton. In this entertaining and illuminating account of the rise of science as we know it, Ball tells of scientists both legendary and lesser known, from Copernicus and Kepler to Robert Boyle, as well as the inventions and technologies that were inspired by curiosity itself, such as the telescope and the microscope. The so-called Scientific Revolution is often told as a story of great geniuses illuminating the world with flashes of inspiration. But Curiosity reveals a more complex story, in which the liberation--and subsequent taming--of curiosity was linked to magic, religion, literature, travel, trade, and empire. Ball also asks what has become of curiosity today: how it functions in science, how it is spun and packaged for consumption, how well it is being sustained, and how the changing shape of science influences the kinds of questions it may continue to ask"--OCLC
Author : William W. Braham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351725583
This title was first published in 2002. This really is a text that will fill a long-felt want. A key figure in that history is Amédée Ozenfant, painter, critic and friend of Le Corbusier, who in the first half of this century founded a school in London where he conducted experiments and wrote about color in architecture. Those experiments have been reconstructed for the book, which also includes reprints of his most important articles on the subject. This book provides a fascinating survey of this most contemporary topic that will inspire and inform designers and architects. Color has often been regarded as the final dressing of a building, subject to the vagaries of fashion and left to the client to select. There have been a number of studies of polychromy in the architecture of the more distant past, particularly in relation to modern conservation practices, but there is little or nothing on the architectural color of recent times, and especially within Modernism.