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A bibliographical history of the study and use of color from Aristotle to Kandinsky.


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A bibliographical bibliographical

pertaining to the literature of a subject.


bibliographical tools
the ways in which a bibliography can be approached or managed.
 history of the study and use of color not of the white race; - commonly meaning, esp. in the United States, of negro blood, pure or mixed.

See also: Color
 from Aristotle to Kandinsky.

Burchett, Kenneth E.

Edwin Mellen Pr.

2005

398 pages

$129.95

Hardcover

QC495

Burchett (art, U. of Central Arkansas) draws on a lifelong interest in research on color and color harmony in creating this reference text for visual arts visual arts nplartes fpl plásticas

visual arts nplarts mpl plastiques

visual arts npl
 scholars. Coverage includes a short history of color harmony from ancient Greece The term ancient Greece refers to the periods of Greek history in Classical Antiquity, lasting ca. 750 BC[1] (the archaic period) to 146 BC (the Roman conquest). It is generally considered to be the seminal culture which provided the foundation of Western Civilization.  to modern times followed by analyses of 12 key books on color, including the work of Goethe, Chevreul, Helmholtz, Munsell, Katz, Kandinsky, Pope, Wright, Judd, Arnheim, Itten, and Albers. Also included is an extensive four-part bibliography containing a retrospective bibliography on color harmony and color in Verb 1. color in - add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film"
color, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize, colour
 art listing 318 books published before 1975; a general bibliography of some 1,450 titles on the topic from antiquity forward, most from the 20th century; a compilation of bibliographies of color; and a cross reference of titles in the general bibliography arranged in 37 color subject categories.

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