Description
This book explores the development of our understanding of color throughout history, from antiquity to the present, from Aristotle to Albers. Besides a historical overview, it includes thematic essays exploring the use of color in numerous disciplines and sectors: religion, commerce, language, nature, well-being, food, printing, and music. Many illustrations are drawn from the renowned Colour Reference Library of the Royal College of Art, which spans six centuries and nearly two thousand titles, from a Gothic manuscript on the composition of the rainbow to hand-painted Enlightenment works on color theory and twentieth-century color charts
Author: Neil Parkinson
Co-author: None
Format: 203×229mm
Language: Dutch
Number of pages: 144
ISBN13: 9789464990348
