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Victoria Finlay
On a journey that takes her from Afghanistan, to the Australian outback, to ancient caves in China, and the saffron harvest in Spain, Victoria Finlay gives an extraordinary, and compelling…
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Katrin Trautwein
128 Colors: A Sample Book for Architects, Conservators and Designers
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Josef Albers
One of the most influential books on colour ever published, Josef Albers’ Interaction of Color is a masterwork. This book replicates Albers’ revolutionary exercises, explaining concepts such as colour relativity…
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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…
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Philip Ball
Discusses ‘colour in art’, its inception, the progress made, and its influences on art.
PASTOUREAU
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…
Michel Pastoureau
Black, favorite color of priests and penitents, artists and ascetics, fashion designers and fascists, has always stood for powerfully opposed ideas: authority and humility and sin and holiness. This book…
John Gage
Provides an introduction to the place and power of colour in life and art. This work includes reproductions of works by such artists as Wassily Kandinsky, Vincent van Gogh, Josef…
