Interaction of color / Josef Albers.
Josef Albers's Interaction of Color is a masterwork in art education. Conceived as a handbook and teaching aid for artists, instructors, and students, this influential book presents Albers's singular explanation of complex color theory principles. Originally published by Yale University Pr...
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New Haven [Connecticut] :
Yale University Press,
[2013]
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| Edition: | 50th anniversary edition ; 4th edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Color recollection : visual memory
- Color reading and contexture
- Why color paper : instead of pigment and paint
- A color has many faces : the relativity of color
- Lighter and/or darker : light intensity, lightness ; Gradation studies : new presentations ; Color intensity : brightness
- 1 color appears as 2 : looking like the reversed grounds
- 2 different colors look alike : subtraction of color
- Why color deception? : after-image, simultaneous contrast
- Color mixture in paper : illusion of transparence
- Factual mixtures : additive and subtractive
- Transparence and space-illusion ; Color boundaries and plastic action
- Optical mixture : after-image revised
- The Bezold Effect
- Color intervals and transformation
- The middle mixture again : intersecting colors
- Color juxtaposition : harmony : quantity
- Film color and volume color : 2 natural effects
- Free studies : a challenge to imagination ; Stripes : restricted juxtaposition ; Fall leaf studies : an American discovery
- The Masters : color instrumentation
- The Weber-Fechner Law : the measure in mixture
- From color temperature to humidity in color
- Vibrating boundaries : enforced contours
- Equal light intensity : vanishing boundaries
- Color theories : color systems
- On teaching color : some color terms ; Explanation of color terms ; Variants versus variety
- In lieu of a bibliography : my first collaborators
- Plates and commentary.