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Colors What They Mean And How To Make Them
Anne Varichon

$31.95 – Hardcover book / Abrams

Colour is one of the most basic means of human expression. It can connote mood, social standing, political alignment or merely personal preference. In Colors, archaeologist and ethnologist Anne Varichon presents a compre... Buy or find out more 


Colour Travels Through The Paintbox
Victoria Finlay

$24.99 – Paperback book / Sceptre

"In the 1770s a young French botanist tricked his way into Mexico. His mission? To steal the secret of Spanish Red from men who would have burned him alive." "In the 1990s the resistance against the Taliban warriors in A... Buy or find out more 



One Hundred And Twenty Eight Colors A Sample Book For Architects Conservators And Designers
Katrin Trautwein

$150.00 – Hardcover book / Birkhauser

Dealing with color is a complex subject: influenced by standards, fashions and trends, we derive our ideas and concepts from color theories, intuition and personal preferences. The color swatches and systems for describi... Buy or find out more 


 

Colour In Art
John Gage

$29.95$19.95 – Paperback book / Thames And Hudson

The complex phenomenon of colour has received detailed attention from the perspectives of physics, chemistry, physiology, psychology, linguistics and philosophy. However, the people who work most closely with colour – ar... Buy or find out more 



Black History Of A Color
Michel Pastoureau

$54.95 – Hardcover book / Princeton Univ Press



Black--favorite color of priests and penitents, artists and ascetics, fashion designers and fascists--has always stood for powerfully opposed ideas: authority and humility, sin and holiness, rebellion and conformity, we... Buy or find out more 


Blue The History Of A Color
Michel Pastoureau

$69.00 – Hardcover book / Princeton Univ Press

Blue has a long and topsy-turvy history in the Western world. Once considered a hot color, it is now icy cool. The ancient Greeks scorned it as ugly and barbaric, but most Americans and Europeans now pick it as their fav... Buy or find out more 



Theory Of Colours
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

$21.95 – Paperback book / Dover Publications

By closely following Goethe's explanations of the color phenomena, the reader may become so divorced from the wavelength theory--Goethe never even mentions it--that he may begin to think about color theory relatively unh... Buy or find out more 


Way We Live With Colour
Cliff S & Chabaneix G

$49.95 – Hardcover book / Thames And Hudson

New in the bestselling "Way We Live" series, is this visually thrilling exploration of the way people around the world live with colour. Divided into five main sections, the book showcases Gilles de Chabaneixs eye for th... Buy or find out more 



On Vision And Colors Color Sphere
Schopenhauer Arthur And Runge Philipp Otto

$43.50 – Paperback book / Princeton Architectural Press

During the first two decades of the nineteenth century, two of the most significant theoretical works on color since Leonardo da Vinci's Trattato della Pittura were written and published in Germany: Arthur Schopenhauer's... Buy or find out more 


Using Australian Colour
Harley Anstee

$45.00 – Paperback book / Hardie Grant

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Art Of Colour
Johannes Itten

$150.95 – Hardcover book / Chapman & Hall

What would the world be without color? A dull, joyless melange of shapes without vital meaning. "Color is life, for a world without color seems dead. As a flame produces light, light produces color. As intonation lends c... Buy or find out more 


Bright Earth
Philip Ball

$32.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage

Colour in art - as in life - is both inspiring and uplifting, but where does it come from? How have artists found new hues, and how have these influenced their work? Beginning with the ancients - when just a handful of p... Buy or find out more 



Devils Cloth A History Of Cloth
Pastoureau Michel Gladding Jody

$19.95 – Paperback book / Washington Square Pr

To stripe a surface serves to distinguish it, to point it out, to oppose it or associate it with another surface, and thus to classify it, to keep an eye on it, to verify it, even to censor it.

Throughout the ages, the s... Buy or find out more 


Pink The Exposed Colour In Contemporary Art And Culture
Nemitz Barbara Ed

$90.00 – Hardcover book / Hatje Cantz

Pink ISBN 3-7757-1771-4 / 978-3-7757-1771-7 Hardcover, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 283 pgs / 200 color. / U.S. $45.00 CDN $54.00 August / Art Featuring Vanessa Beecroft, Joseph Beuys, Louise Bourgeois, James Lee Byars, Christo and ... Buy or find out more 



Elements Of Colour
Johannes Itten

$82.95 – Paperback book / Wiley

A useful simplification and condensation of Johannes ltten's major work. The Art of Color, this book covers subjective feeling and objective color principles in detail. It presents the key to understanding color in ltten... Buy or find out more 


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