Цвет и culture. Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction Thames & Hudson (370059524)

Средоточие, заслуга-винной аналитики цвета в Western culture, з древніх греков к последней двадцать century по одному из most foremost authors on subject. What does the language of color tell us? Where does one color begin and another end? Или это radiant visual stimulus, intangible функція світла, або матеріал substance to be moulded and arrayed? Colour is fundamental to art, ye so diverse that it has hardly ever been studied in a comprehensive way. Художественная история Джона Гадже considers every conceivable aspect of the subject in the groundbreaking analysis of colour in Western culture, from the ancient Greeks to late twentieth century. Gage describes první theories of colour, articulated by Greek philosophers, a subsequent attempts by Romans and their Renaissance disciples to organize it systematically or endow it with symbolic power. Не извлекает его religious significance і його використання в геральдии, как хорошо как ренонсация артистов адаптированы цвет с помощью архемистиев. Он exploruje analysis of spectrum undertaken по Newton и действует в нинетентом центре по артистам such as Seurat, traces influence of Goethe's colour theory, і consideras extraordinariy theories and practices that attempted to unite colour and music, or make colour own. У першу-двох подчеркнут возвращение предложений к многим жизненно важным вопросам о роле цвета в Western Art and Thought, this study throws fresh light on hidden meanings of family masterpieces.