Colour and culture : practice and meaning from antiquity to abstraction / John Gage.
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London :
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Classical inheritance
- Archaeology and philology
- Greek theories of color
- Splendor and motion
- 2. Fortunes of Apelles
- The four-color theory
- The problem of mixture
- Apelles in the Renaissance
- Dürer and Titian
- The idea of the primaries
- Apelles in the studio
- 3. Light from the East
- Monumental mosaics
- Meaning in mosaic
- Light and liturgy
- Realism and movement
- The colors of Divine Light
- The colors of Islam
- 4. A Dionysian aesthetic
- The new light
- Suger's aesthetics
- The blues of St-Denis
- From glass-staining to glass-painting
- Workmanship versus materials
- The secularization of light
- Dante on the psychology of light
- 5. Color-language, color-symbols
- Basic color terms
- The colors of heraldry
- Secular and sacred in color-meaning
- Post-medieval preceptions of heraldic blazon
- 6. Unweaving the rainbow
- From titian to Testa
- The Romantics
- Prismatics and harmony
- Twentieth-century epilogue
- 7. Disegno versus colore
- Alberti and Grey
- Ghiberti and perception
- Color-symbolism in the Quattrocento
- The importance of materials
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Venetian color in the sixteenth century
- 8. Peacock's tail
- Color indicators
- Leonardo on alchemy
- Alchemical gendering in Jan van Eyck
- Alchemy in the Sistine Chapel
- Spiritual metaphors in metallurgy
- 9. Color under control : the reign of Newton
- The colors of light
- Darkness visible
- The problem of color-scales
- Newton's Opticks and the uses of classification
- Color-space from Newton to Seurat
- 10. The palette : "mother of all colors"
- The palette as system
- The well-tempered palette
- Delacroix's palettes
- The palette as painting
- 11. Colors of the mind : Goethe's legacy
- Color as perception
- The impact of Goethe
- The morality of color
- "Painting is recording colored sensations"
- From Matisse to abstraction
- 12. The substance of color
- Venetian secrets
- Technology and ideology
- The impact of synthetic colors
- Time the painter
- Color as constructive material
- 13. The sound of color
- The Greek chromatic scale
- Medieval and Renaissance color harmonies
- Arcimboldo's color-music
- Music and color in the seventeenth century
- Castel's ocular harpsichord
- The Romantics
- Sonority and rhythm
- Moving color
- 14. Color without theory : the role of abstraction
- The grammar of color
- De Stijl
- Color at the Bauhaus
- Empiricism in Italy and France
- Empiricism as theory
- The materials of abstraction.