Although we experience colour all the time, do we really understand colour? Three hundred years ago Isaac Newton showed that white light is composed of all the colours of the spectrum yet does this provide us with insight into our own personal experience of colour sensation? To answer such questions on the nature of colour this volume gathers the combined knowledge of physics, biology, history and art. It provides an exciting exploration of colour, from the diverse perspectives of experts in eight different fields of study. Their essays take us on a journey both through the sciences and the world of fine art, and they combine to give a full and rewarding view of colour.
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'Colour: Art and Science tells the story of colour wonderfully well. I cannot recommend this beautifully produced and eclectic book too highly.' Michael J. Morgan, Nature
'Because the detailed questions were well selected it provides a very diverse range of knowledge about colour in a readable and well-presented form.' Journal of Experimental Physiology
'Because the detailed questions were well selected it provides a very diverse range of knowledge about colour in a readable and well-presented form.' Journal of Experimental Physiology
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Colour transcends art and science. This book of interdisciplinary essays, provides an exciting exploration of colour, from the diverse perspectives of experts in eight fields ranging from physics, through biology, to art history.
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This review is from: Colour: Art and Science (Darwin College Lectures) (Paperback)
'Colour, like beauty, is in the eye and brain of the beholder'. So Dennis Baylor writes in his explanation of how science understands the colour mechanisms in the eye. Like all the contributors, he talks about colour from a certain perspective, providing enough depth to interest someone with little prior knowledge without losing the reader along the way. The approaches to colour roughly fall into three different categories: scientific perspectives looking at the physics and biology of light and colour; a discussion of culture, language and colour; and an overview of colour in art. The two chapters on this last subject were fascinating for me. The history of colour in art talked about the importance of pigments in medieval art, and how the use of colour in painting was affected by the subsequent introduction of oil and synthetic paints. Colour for the painter covered artists like Titian, Caravaggio, Vermeer, Velazquez, Monet and Matisse. My only problem was that I became so interested in their discussions that I wanted them to cover more.
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It is almost impossible for us to know just how colourful the art of the past was. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ancient subsystem, pictorial colour, perceptual colour, colour vocabulary, structural colour, human colour vision, anomalous trichromat, coloured shadows, cone pigments, colour constancy, wavelength information, colour signal, experimentum crucis, retinal surface, colour sensation, colour system, peak sensitivity, colour space, bipolar cells, green cones Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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ancient subsystem, pictorial colour, perceptual colour, colour vocabulary, structural colour, human colour vision, anomalous trichromat, coloured shadows, cone pigments, colour constancy, wavelength information, colour signal, experimentum crucis, retinal surface, colour sensation, colour system, peak sensitivity, colour space, bipolar cells, green cones Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, National Gallery, Cambridge University Press, New World, Museum of Modern Art, Scientific American, Denis Baylor, Basic Color Terms, Old World, New Haven, University of California Press, Yale University Press New!
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- Colour and Culture by John Gage on page 175, page 193, and Back Matter
- Interaction of Color: Revised and Expanded Edition by Josef Albers on page 177, page 192, and Back Matter
- Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution by Brent Berlin on page 208, and page 223
- Unknown Colour: Paintings, Letters and Writings by Winifred Nicholson on page 193, and Back Matter
- Rainbows, Halos and Glories by Robert Greenler on page 101, and Back Matter
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- Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation (Post-Contemporary Interventions) by Brian Massumi on 7 pages
- A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire by Amy Butler Greenfield in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color by Philip Ball in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Out of the Blue: A 24-Hour Skywatcher's Guide by John Naylor in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Abstract Painting: Concepts and Techniques by Vicky Perry in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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