Colour and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for Colour and Culture Revised and updated, this work considers every aspect of the subject in an analysis of colour in Western culture. It describes the first theories of colour, articulated by philosophers from Democritus to Aristotle, as well as looking at its religious significance, and the role of colour today.
Full description- Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Published: 30 October 1995
- Format: Paperback 336 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Art Theory | Art History
- ISBN 13: 9780500278185 ISBN 10: 0500278180
- Sales rank: 121,378
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Full bibliographic data for Colour and Culture
- Title
- Colour and Culture
- Subtitle
- Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction
- Authors and contributors
- Physical properties
- Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
Width: 250 mm
Height: 280 mm
Thickness: 278 mm
Weight: 1,950 g - Audience
- College/higher education
Professional and scholarly - Language
- English
- ISBN
- ISBN 13: 9780500278185
ISBN 10: 0500278180 - Classifications
- Dewey: 701.8509
Nielsen BookScan Product Class: T1.0
BICMainSubject: ABA
BISAC category code: ART009000 - Edition
- New edition
- Edition statement
- New edition
- Illustrations note
- 223 illustrations, 120 in colour
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Imprint name
- Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Publication date
- 30 October 1995
- Publication City/Country
- London/GB
- Table of contents
- Introduction; the classical inheritance; the fortunes of Apelles; light from the east; a Dionysian aesthetic; colour-language, colour-symbols; unweaving the rainbow; "Disegno" versus "Colore"; the peacock's tail; colour under control: the reign of Newton; the palette: "Mother of All Colours"; colours of the mind: Goethe's legacy; the substance of colour; the sound of colour; colour without theory: the role of abstraction; acknowledgments; notes to the text; concordance.
