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The Color Compendium (Hardcover)

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Key Phrases: forecasting color, multaneous contrast, highly permanent, United States, World War, Middle Ages (more...)

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The Color Compendium is the first comprehensive, illustrated encyclopedia entirely devoted to color. This extraordinary reference covers the full range of color-related subjects, including their scientific, technical, artistic, and historical aspects.

The Color Compendium features:
- An A to Z encyclopedia, extensively cross-referenced for easy access to all information
- A section of color systems, explaining their development and use
- Sections on color communication and symbolism
- Biographies of leading historical and contemporary color theorists, and commentaries on their ideas
- A fully illustrated section of historic and twentieth century palettes and their source artifacts

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That color is an art, a science, a culture, fashion and flowers, is all borne out in the pages of The Color Compendium. We tried to provide ready and quick access to the language of color, the artists, theories, and history that make color a factor in every aspect of our lives.

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Product Details

Hardcover: 360 pages
Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold (January 1, 1990)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0442003781
ISBN-13: 978-0442003784
Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.7 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,649,738 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
forecasting color, multaneous contrast, highly permanent, metameric colors, mural ceramics, rite colors, additive color mixing, color couplers, body prism, color cycles, color theorist, earth pigments, fashion shades, optical mixture, successive contrast, color constancy, grayed colors, safety colors, color education, mounted chips, color organ, color field painting, tristimulus values, blanc fixe, silkscreen printing

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United States, World War, Middle Ages, New York City, Art Deco, Wassily Kandinsky, Isaac Newton, Sources of Historic Colors, Leonardo da Vinci, Henri Matisse, Natural Earth Pigments, Measurement of Color, Paul Klee, Pierre Bonnard, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Blaue Reiter, Georges Braque, Claude Monet, Faber Birren, Johannes Itten, Personal Color Analysis, Sir Joshua, William Morris, Art Nouveau Colors, Eug�ne Delacroix

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This book cites 88 books:

Interaction of Color: Revised Edition by Josef Albers on page 11, page 108, and Back Matter
The Painter's Eye: Notes and Essays on the Pictorial Arts by Henry James in Index (1), Index (2), and Index (3)
Color source book by Margaret Walch in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Flap
Olivier Messiaen: Music and Color: Conversations with Claude Samuel by Claude Samuel on page 213, page 284, and Index
Le dernier Picasso, 1953-1973: Centre Georges Pompidou : 17 fevrier-16 mai 1988, exposition (French Edition) by Pablo Picasso on page 98, and page 99

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Color Compendium, March 30, 2001

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This is one of the most straightforward resources on color symbolism and usage that I have found. I did my thesis on symbolism and had to use MANY resources, this was one of most "user friendly". It would be the perfect desktop resource for a designer.

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I purchased this book based on a recommendation from an art teacher that I took a class from. It is different than I thought it would be but a very useful reference guide. The contents includes a color section and essays, And the categories with definitions range from A to Z. So the A section has descriptions for Aalto, Alvar, Abberation, Absinthe, Abstraction of color, acacia etc. etc. And, each of these has a commentary on what or who it is and a description. It is a great reference book for any artist or someone taking art classes. I like it and refer to it many times.

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