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Color and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction

Paperback • 1999 • English

Color and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction

By John Gage

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About the book

Color is fundamental to life and art yet so diverse that it has seldom been studied in a comprehensive way. This ground-breaking analysis of color in Western culture from the ancient Greeks to the late twentieth century is a John Gage triumph. With originality and erudition, he describes the first theories of color articulated by philosophers from Democritus to Aristotle and the subsequent attempts by the Romans and their Renaissance disciples to organize color systematically or endow it with sy...Show more

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ISBN

9780520222250

Publisher

University of California Press

Published year

1999

Language

English

Original title

Color and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction

Format

Paperback

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