Author: John Gage Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 9780520226111 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 326
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"John Gage's Color and Meaning is full of ideas. . .He is one of the best writers on art now alive."--A. S. Byatt, Booker Prize winner
Author: Leatrice Eiseman Publisher: Hand Books Press ISBN: 9780971401068 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 144
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• Features up-to-date color combination guidelines • Includes printing formulas for reproduction of 4-color process and the PANTONE® equivalents There is no one in the business world that doubts the impact of color. Those involved in marketing, design, advertising, and retail need to be as informed as possible about the usage of color as a means of instant communication in order to make appropriate color decisions. This guide explains the emotional response to color and covers the latest guidelines for effective color combinations including the integration of color trends. With up-to-date visuals and printing formulas to eliminate guess-work, this guide empowers and equips its users to make smart informed decisions.
Author: Marcia B. Hall Publisher: ISBN: 9780521457330 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 288
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Recent restoration campaigns, particularly to the Sistine Chapel, have focused attention on the importance of colour in our experience of paintings, but until recently it has been neglected by art historians. The author believes that the work of art can only be fully appreciated when it is regarded as the product of both the artist's hand and mind. This study utilizes the traditional sources, such as contemporary theoretical writings and iconographical analysis, but in addition draws on the scientific findings of the conservation laboratories. This is a new body of data assembled in large part since World War II, which art historians are only beginning to exploit to fill out the history of technique. Rather than writing merely a history of technique, however, the author has integrated this material with traditional approaches to cultural history. She undertakes to examine twenty major paintings of the period from Giotto to Tintoretto to elucidate how colour and technique contribute to their meaning. She gives us then, the first modern consideration of Renaissance paintings both as physical objects and as monuments of cultural history.
Author: Nina G. Jablonski Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520953770 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 285
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Living Color is the first book to investigate the social history of skin color from prehistory to the present, showing how our body’s most visible trait influences our social interactions in profound and complex ways. In a fascinating and wide-ranging discussion, Nina G. Jablonski begins with the biology and evolution of skin pigmentation, explaining how skin color changed as humans moved around the globe. She explores the relationship between melanin pigment and sunlight, and examines the consequences of rapid migrations, vacations, and other lifestyle choices that can create mismatches between our skin color and our environment. Richly illustrated, this book explains why skin color has come to be a biological trait with great social meaning— a product of evolution perceived by culture. It considers how we form impressions of others, how we create and use stereotypes, how negative stereotypes about dark skin developed and have played out through history—including being a basis for the transatlantic slave trade. Offering examples of how attitudes about skin color differ in the U.S., Brazil, India, and South Africa, Jablonski suggests that a knowledge of the evolution and social importance of skin color can help eliminate color-based discrimination and racism.
Author: Mark Bradley Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521291224 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
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The study of colour has become familiar territory in anthropology, linguistics, art history and archaeology. Classicists, however, have traditionally subordinated the study of colour to form. By drawing together evidence from contemporary philosophers, elegists, epic writers, historians and satirists, Mark Bradley reinstates colour as an essential informative unit for the classification and evaluation of the Roman world. He also demonstrates that the questions of what colour was and how it functioned - as well as how it could be misused and misunderstood - were topics of intellectual debate in early imperial Rome. Suggesting strategies for interpreting Roman expressions of colour in Latin texts, Dr Bradley offers alternative approaches to understanding the relationship between perception and knowledge in Roman elite thought. In doing so, he highlights the fundamental role that colour performed in the realms of communication and information, and its intellectual contribution to contemporary discussions of society, politics and morality.
Author: A. H. Munsell Publisher: e-artnow ISBN: Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 65
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A Color Notation is a book written by Albert Henry Munsell, an American painter, teacher of art, and the inventor of the Munsell color system. Munsell color system is an early attempt at creating an accurate system for numerically describing colors. The Munsell color order system has gained international acceptance and has served as the foundation for many color order systems.
Author: John Gage
Author: Leatrice Eiseman
Author: John Gage
Author: Marcia B. Hall
Author: Nina G. Jablonski
Author: Mark Bradley
Author: A. H. Munsell
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Author: Andy Curtis
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