In this new, richly illustrated book, Gerstner draws on artistic, literary, and scientific sources, as well as on his own studio work to explore the basic visual elements of color and form.
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"Gerstner has found a system of simple and symmetrical geometric shapes that can be continuously transformed from one to another so that each colour can be given its own distinct shape ... Some of his resulting artwork can be seen via the exceptionally good reproductions in [the] book, which I recommend to any artists engaged in thinking systematically about colour. Karl Gerstner is above all, a visual combinator. Rather than pursuing solutions to specific problems, he is seeking a general program valid for many solutions: a systematic approach for analyzing in design terms the conceptual and emotional aspects of form and color."
—Emilio Ambasz --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Text: English, German (translation)
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Synesthetic Color Forms from Swiss Artist/Designer Karl Gerstner,
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This review is from: Forms of Color: The Interaction of Visual Elements (Paperback)
Karl Gerstner gives first a formal overview of color theory and systems beginning in the European Enlightenment and then illustrates how he has come to interpret the chromatic primaries and the secondaries into concrete forms.
These initial explorations and expressions are combined and hybridized to generate sculpture, paintings and 3-dimensional art forms with explanatory text and images. Essential for any art or art history scholar of 20th century BAUHAUS - or artists or scholars whose primary interests focus on color, visible light and the color spectrum - and it's application to physical forms. J. Kälin, KC, MO, USA
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