Color and culture : practice and meaning from antiquity to abstraction /

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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gage, John, 1938-2012.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boston : Little, Brown and Company, [1993]
Edition:	First North American edition.
Subjects:	Color in art. Colors.

Table of 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.