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The Principles of Harmony and Contrast of Colors and Their Applications to the Arts

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Many artists seem to feel that books like this which take a scientific aproach to color theory are dated and useless. I feel like those are the types of artists who would rather come up with excuses for their color choices after the fact than actually justify them before-hand by studying the way light wavelengths interact with eachother.

this isn't new science and it's not a set of rules which will make you brilliant at picking colors, but it does shed some light (9_9) on why certain colors look the way they do in juxtaposition with eachother and allows a more informed choice in the way optical mixtures are created for design and artistic applications.

I'm not sure about all editions of this book but the one that I own (paperback...) has NO color inside at all! Who ever heard of a book on the subject of color that didn't include any? What were they thinking? I'm sure it's a fascinating read but if someone is interested enough in color to read this hefty tome, you've got to think they might also enjoy looking at it too. This is an oversized thick book which is at least 95% text. There are very few black & white diagrams either.

Is not easy to review a book that is published since XIXth century, too much water have flown in the color theory field, knowing that, I bought it as a reference book, I recommend it only under this consideration