Ian Whittlesea: Becoming Invisible
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The Color-Word Value Index
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100 RYB
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Sessanta Verdi Naturali da una Indagine Indificazione del Colore in Natura Effettuata nel Periodo luglio 1973 / Ottobre 1974 = Sixty Natural Greens from a Research of Color Existing in Nature Done During July 1973 / October 1974
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The Brilliant History of Color in Art
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Journey from the Ice Age to the Digital Age with a surprising cast of characters on this worldwide tour of color in art. Discover the strange, intriguing, and humorous stories of your favorite colors, the science behind them, and how they forever changed the courses of art and history. Were it not for Cleopatra, for instance, purple might not have become the royal color of the Western world.
Color: A Natural History of the Palette
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Stories behind colors: Cleopatra used saffron—a source of the color yellow—for seduction. Extracted from an Afghan mine, the blue “ultramarine” paint used by Michelangelo was so expensive he couldn’t afford to buy it himself. Since ancient times, carmine red—still found in products today—has come from the blood of insects.
The Secret Lives of Color
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The Secret Lives of Color tells the unusual stories of seventy-five fascinating shades, dyes and hues. From blonde to ginger, the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that protected against the plague, Picasso’s blue period to the charcoal on the cave walls at Lascaux, acid yellow to kelly green, and from scarlet women to imperial purple, these surprising stories run like a bright thread throughout history.
Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color
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From Egyptian wall paintings to the Venetian Renaissance, impressionism to digital images, Philip Ball tells the fascinating story of how art, chemistry, and technology have interacted throughout the ages to render the gorgeous hues we admire on our walls and in our museums.
The Primary Colors
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A cultural history, these splendid essays on the three primary colors--blue, yellow, and red--extend to the artistic, literary, linguistic, botanical, cinematic, aesthetic, religious, scientific, culinary, climatological, and emotional dimensions of each color.
The Secondary Colors
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Alexander Theroux, with these essays on the secondary colors - orange, purple, and green - explores, by way of literature, music, art, poetry, linguistics, sports, religion, food, science, botany, movies, fable, anecdote, the innumerable facets of each color.
Color and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction
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Investigation of the experience of color, art historian Gage explores color as a language of emotions, psychological meaning and religious significance. The 14 essays, accompanied by 223 plates are full of arcane and wondrous lore, from ancient Rome's cult of purple (a hue associated with the ruling elite) to the symbology of rainbows, perceived correspondences between colors and music, and color symbolism in heraldry and alchemy.
Blue: The History of a Color
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With an elegant design and illustrated with nearly one hundred color plates, Blue tells the history of our favorite color and the cultures that have hated it, loved it, and created great art with it.
A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire
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This book recounts the colorful history of cochineal, a legendary red dye that was once one of the world's most precious commodities. Treasured by the ancient Mexicans, cochineal was sold in the great Aztec marketplaces, where it attracted the attention of the Spanish conquistadors in 1519. Shipped to Europe, the dye created a sensation, producing the brightest, strongest red the world had ever seen.
Red: The History of a Color
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Navigates centuries of symbolism and complex meanings to present the fascinating and sometimes controversial history of the color red. Pastoureau illuminates red's evolution through a diverse selection of captivating images, including the cave paintings of Lascaux, the works of Renaissance masters, and the modern paintings and stained glass of Mark Rothko and Josef Albers.
Pink: The Exposed Color in Contemporary Art and Culture
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From the rosy tint of wind-reddened cheeks to the first flush of arousal, from cherry blossoms to PeptoBismol, pink is a sweet, intimate, fragile and sickening shade. Few colors trigger more contradictory associations and emotions--tender, childish, plastic, pornographic--or are so symbolic of both high and low culture. Artists of all hues, from Jean-Honore Fragonard to Pablo Picasso, Caspar David Friedrich, Louise Bourgeois, Sylvie Fleury or Pipilotti Rist, have studied it in their works.
Green: The History of a Color
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Examining the evolving place of green in art, clothes, literature, religion, science, and everyday life, Michel Pastoureau traces how culture has profoundly changed the perception and meaning of the color over millennia―and how we misread cultural, social, and art history when we assume that colors have always signified what they do today.
Black: The History of a Color
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Black--favorite color of priests and penitents, artists and ascetics, fashion designers and fascists--has always stood for powerfully opposed ideas: authority and humility, sin and holiness, rebellion and conformity, wealth and poverty, good and bad. In this illustrated book the author tells the fascinating social history of the color black in Europe.
The Key of Green: Passion and Perception in Renaissance Culture
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From Shakespeare's green-eyed monster to the green thought in a green shade in Andrew Marvell's The Garden, the color green was curiously prominent and resonant in English culture of the 16th & 17th centuries. Green was the most common color of household goods, the recommended wall color against which to view paintings, the hue that was supposed to appear in alchemical processes at the moment base metal turned to gold, and the color most frequently associated with human passions.
Foundations of Color: Text, Illustration and Design
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Examination of the major topics of color theory. This book presents the basic concepts of color in a logical order, with each chapter building on the next with numerous diagrams The diagrams are paired with relevant examples of contemporary art that connect theory to application.
Color Codes: Modern Theories of Color in Philosophy, Painting and Architecture, Literature, Music, and Psychology
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The first thing to realize about the study of color in our time is its uncanny ability to evade all attempts to systematically codify it," writes Charles A. Riley in this series of interconnected essays on the uses and meanings of color.
Goethe's Color Theory
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Translation of Goethes Farbenlehre.
"Charles Eastlake's 1820 translation of the 'didactic part' of the color theory. A complete facsimile reproduction from the edition of 1840
Munsell Book of Color, Defining, Explaining, and Illustrating the Fundamental Characteristics of Color
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The Munsell System provides a notation for any color in the universe. The charts contain a careful selection of colors arranged in orderly sequences of HUE, VALUE, and CHROMA.
Werner's Nomenclature of Colours: adapted to Zoology, Botany, Chemistry, Mineralogy, Anatomy, and the Arts
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This facsimile of the 1814 Werner's Nomenclature of Colours is a taxonomic guide to the colors of the natural world. In the late 18th C, mineralogist Abraham Gottlob Werner devised a standardized color scheme to describe even the subtlest of chromatic differences with consistent terminology. Werner's handbook became a resource for naturalists and anthropologists, including Charles Darwin, who used it to identify colors in nature during his seminal voyage on the HMS Beagle.
Color Problems: A Practical Manual for the Lay Student of Color
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Emily Noyes Vanderpoel's (1842-1939) first work, published in 1903, Color Problems: A Practical Manual for the Lay Student of Color, provides a comprehensive overview of the main ideas of color theory at the time, as well as her wildly original approaches to color analysis and interaction. Through a 21st century lens, she appears to stumble upon midcentury design and minimalism decades prior to those movements.
How Color Works: Color Theory in the 21st Century
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Richly illustrated and interactive in its approach, How Color Works: Color Theory in the Twenty-First Century explores the contemporary aesthetics of color. Color and its many meanings are presented in culturally specific terms, encouraging students to appreciate the power that color holds over different societies.
Colors: the Story of Dyes and Pigments
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Chronicles the history of dyes and pigments and their related industries, discussing colors in the Middle Ages; the explosion of supply and demand in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries; and advances in industrial chemistry.
Modern Paints Uncovered: Proceedings from the Modern Paints Uncovered Symposium Organized by the Getty Conservation Institute, Tate, and the National Gallery of Art
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Artist's Pigments: a Handbook of their History and Characteristics
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This volume describes the history, characteristics, and scientific analysis of nine pigments: azurite and blue verditer; natural and artificial ultramarine blue; lead white; lead–tin yellow; smalt; verdigris and copper resinate; vermilion and cinnabar; malachite and green verditer; and calcium carbonate whites.
Collecting Colour
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In this book Narayan Khandekar, director of the Strauss Center, takes us on a tour of the amazing universe of the Forbes Pigment Collection, which at present is kept in the Strauss Center for Conservation and Technical Studies at Harvard University. This collection contains over three thousand natural and synthetic colouring agents. Khandekar shows the origins of the pigments and their cultural uses.
Wild Color: the Complete Guide to Making and Using Natural Dyes
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A guide to creating and using natural dyes from plants. Offers information on current dyeing techniques and more than 65 species of plants and natural dyestuffs.
Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to today
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Color Chart addresses the impact of standardized mass-produced color on the art of the past sixty years. Taking the commercial color chart as its central metaphor, the book chronicles an important artistic shift that took place during the middle of the twentieth century: a frank acknowledgment of color as a matter-of-fact element rather than a vehicle of spiritual or emotional content.
Cheyney Thompson: Metric, Pedestal, Landlord, Cabengo, Recit
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Thompson’s Chronochromes (2009-2011), which are composed using the color system devised by Albert H. Munsell in the early 1900s. Thompson grafts this system onto a calendar: each day is assigned a complementary hue pair, with every hour changing the value, and every month changing the saturation, of each brushstroke.
Chromaphilia: The Story of Color in Art
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This vibrant and compelling book uses 240 artworks as case studies to tell the story of ten individual colors or color groups. It explores the history and meaning of each color in art, highlighting fascinating tales of discovery and artistic passion, and offering easily accessible explanations of the science and theory behind specific colors.
The Structure of Color
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Catalog of an exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art from February 25 to April 18, 1971.
Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski: "Depuis la Couleur" 1958-1964
Centre d'arts plastiques contemporains de Bordeaux, 23 janvier-21 mars 1981.
Sol Lewitt Wall Drawing: Seven Basic Colors and all Their Combinations in a Square within a Square: for Josef Albers
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Josef Albers and Sol LeWitt are split by fundamentally different understandings of their work, but united by a powerful, overarching and defining goal, the avoidance of emphatic ideas of authorship and the de-emphasis, even, of the star system inside an author's own oeuvre. Both keep their works from getting uppity by making each one part of a serial long-term study, rather than an individual potential masterpiece.
Colour
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This chronological anthology reflects on the aesthetic, cultural and philosophical meaning of colour to artists within the broader context of anthropology, film, philosophy and science.
The Contrast of Colors
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Pantone Essentials: Six Guide Set
Includes 3 Pantone solid color guides, with 1,114 colors printed on coated, uncoated and matte papers; 2 Pantone process color guides, with more than 3,000 CMYK process combinations printed on both coated and uncoated papers; Pantone color bridge with solid Pantone colors printed side-by-side with their closest CMYK match on coated paper; Pantone metallic formula guide coated with 301 solid colors; Pantone pastel formula guide coated and uncoated with 154 colors; GoeXplorer guide with 165 full strength colors.
Interaction of Color
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Josef Albers's 'Interaction of Color' is a masterwork in 20th century art observation and was conceived as a handbook and teaching aid for artists, instructors and students. It presents his ideas of colour experimentation in a clear and accessible manner.
The Colours of Our Memories
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A journal about colors that covers the period 1950-2010 traces the recent history of colors in France and Europe through personal memories, notes and comments, and scholarly historical digressions.
Bluets:
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A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue. With Bluets, Maggie Nelson has entered the pantheon of brilliant lyric essayists.
The Anthropology of Turquoise
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In this invigorating mix of natural history and adventure, artist-naturalist Ellen Meloy uses turquoise—the color and the gem—to probe deeper into our profound human attachment to landscape.
The White Road: A Journey into an Obsession
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Author and artist Edmund de Waal gives us an intimate narrative history of his lifelong obsession with porcelain, or "white gold." But his search eventually takes him around the globe and reveals more than a history of cups and figurines; rather, he is forced to confront some of the darkest moments of twentieth-century history.
The White Book
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From the winner of the Man Booker International Prize for The Vegetarian From the author of The Vegetarian and Human Acts comes a book like no other. The White Book is a meditation on colour, beginning with a list of white things. It is a book about mourning, rebirth and the tenacity of the human spirit. It is a stunning investigation of the fragility, beauty and strangeness of life.
Chromophobia
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The central argument of Chromophobia is that a chromophobic impulse - a fear of corruption or contamination through color - lurks within much Western cultural and intellectual thought. This is apparent in the many and varied attempts to purge color, either by making it the property of some "foreign body" or by relegating it to the realm of the superficial, the supplementary, the inessential, or the cosmetic.
What Color Is the Sacred?
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Taussig's writing makes ingenious connections between ideas, thinkers, and things. An extended meditation on the mysteries of colour and the fascination they provoke.
The Red and the Real: an Essay on Color Ontology
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Examines the longstanding philosophical puzzles about what colors are and how they fit into the natural world. Cohen draws on color science, psychology, phenomenology, semantics, and ontology in arguing that colors are identical to certain functional roles involving perceptual effects on subjects.
Outside Color: Perceptual Science and the Puzzle of Color in Philosophy
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Is color real or illusory, mind independent or mind dependent? Does seeing in color give us a true picture of external reality? M. Chirimuuta draws on contemporary perceptual science to address these questions. Her account integrates historical philosophical debates, contemporary work in the philosophy of color, and recent findings in neuroscience and vision science to propose a theory of the relationship between color and physical reality.
Remarks on Colour
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This book comprises material on colour which was written by Wittgenstein in the last eighteen months of his life. It is one of the few documents which shows him concentratedly at work on a single philosophical issue. The principal theme is the features of different colours, of different kinds of colour (metallic colour, the colours of flames, etc.) and of luminosity
The Quest for Reality: Subjectivism and the Metaphysics of Colour
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We say "the grass is green" or "lemons are yellow" to state what everyone knows. But are the things we see around us really colored, or do they only look that way because of the effects of light rays on our eyes and brains? Is color somehow "unreal" or "subjective" and dependent on our human perceptions and the conditions under which we see things?
Seeing the Light: Optics in Nature, Photography, Color, Vision, and Holography
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A nonmathematical study of light available. Coverage includes processes of vision and the eye, atmospherical optical phenomena, color perception and illusions, color in nature and in art, and holography. Includes experiments that can be carried out with simple equipment.
Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing
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How we see art depends ultimately on the cells in our eyes and our brains. This book explains how the eye and brain translate different wavelengths of light into the colors and forms of the world around us. The author turns to art in order to delve into the science underlying various phenomena in painting, using example to illustrate her points.
Color
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Why study color? -- Color basics -- Perceiving colors -- Psychological effects of color -- Compositional effects of color -- Theories of color relationships -- Subtractive notation and mixing -- Light mixtures -- Color combinations and interactions -- Color in fine art -- Color in applied design -- Color problems.
Light and Color
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The physical nature of light -- The origin of color -- Colorimetry -- Describing and measuring color -- Color vision -- The appearance of objects -- Geometric optics -- Applied geometrical optics -- Wave optics -- Light and color in nature -- Appendixes.
Summary Colour - Optics - Light - Colour vision - Wave optics
Empire of Light: a History of Discovery in Science and Art
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Inspired by Magritte's painting, Empire of Light offers the general reader a clear, non-technical interpretation of the story of light, from ancient discoveries (and colossal misconceptions) to the most modern theories of light's role in the universe; from the cosmic to the subatomic; from all of light's colorful mysteries to its promising scientific and industrial applications.
Why the Sky Is Blue: Discovering the Color of Life
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Of philosophers and the color blue -- A blue mixture : light and darkness -- Aerial perspective -- A color of the first order -- Basic phenomenon, or optical illusion? -- A polarized sky -- Lord Rayleigh's scattering -- Molecular reality -- Ozone's blue hour -- The color of life.
Dimensional Color:
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Exploring the interaction between light, color, and surfaces, the book is a valuable tool for the teaching and practice of color in architecture and design
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