All Aspects of Color Resources: History & Theory

Of interest to art historians, students, conservators, and art lovers, this book presents the writings of ten 17th century writers, from different European countries, who described the studio practice in relation to the artists' palettes with over 100 pigments.

New painters' palettes pigments were introduced in Europe in the18th century ranging from Prussian Blue to the early synthetics such as Patent Yellow. Listed in this book are 150 pigments that were available to artists in the shops in London and Paris.

The story of the color black in art, fashion, and culture--from the beginning of history to the twenty-first century. With its striking design and compelling text, Black will engage anyone who is interested in the history of fashion, art, media, or design.

An illustrated visual and cultural history of the color blue throughout the ages. Blue tells the intriguing story of one of our favorite colors and the cultures that have hated it, loved it, and made it essential to some of the greatest works of art.

The history of art is inseparable from the history of color as readers journey from the Ice Age to the Digital Age in this worldwide tour of color in art.

This book uses 240 artworks as case studies to tell the story of ten individual colours or colour groups. It explores the history and meaning of each colour in art, highlighting tales of discovery and artistic passion, and offering accessible explanations of the science and theory behind specific colours.

Throughout history, pigments have been made from deadly metals, poisonous minerals, urine, cow dung, and even crushed insects. From grinding down beetles and burning animal bones to alchemy, this book reveals the stories behind over fifty of history's most vivid color pigments and how synthetic colors came to be spanning from the ancient world to modern leaps in technology.

This book illuminates how the colors we choose have determined the history of culture itself and explores the physical materials that color the world, such as precious minerals and insect blood, as well as the social and political meanings that color has carried through time.

This book charts color exploration and expression from the 1600s to the present day through painters' tools, art, ephemera, and literature as it chronicles the history of how color has been recorded, explored, and understood. It also celebrates the visual quality and beauty of various color theories over time and highlights the creativity of their design and codification.

Color is fundamental to life and art yet so diverse that it has seldom been studied in a comprehensive way. This analysis of color in Western culture from the ancient Greeks to the late twentieth century provides a large classified bibliography, discursive footnotes, and an exhaustive index. Color and Culture is a resource for artists, historians of art and culture, psychologists, linguists, and anyone fascinated by color.

Providing a pro color perspective on the culture, history and theory of early photography, this volume demonstrates the reasons scientists, philosophers, photographers, writers and artists were fascinated by the potential of color in photographs.

Color Chart celebrates a paradox: the lush beauty that results when contemporary artists assign colour decisions to chance, ready-made source or arbitrary system. This book focuses on this pivotal transformation, and features work by some forty artists ranging from Ellsworth Kelly and Gerhard Richter to Sherrie Levine and Damien Hirst.

Color was a critical element in East Asian life and thought, but its importance has been largely overlooked in Western scholarship. This interdisciplinary volume explores the fascinating roles that color played in the society, politics, thought, art, and ritual practices of ancient and medieval East Asia (ca. 1600 B.C.E.-ca. 1400 C.E.). This publication is the outcome of years of collaboration between chemists, conservators, archaeologists, historians of art and literature, and scholars of Buddhism and Daoism from the United States, East Asia, and Europe.

First published in 1902, this groundbreaking book provides a comprehensive overview of the main ideas of color theory at the time, along with Emily Noyes Vanderpoel’s original approaches to color analysis and interaction. She wanted to make color theory available to every person. Her idea that everyday people could benefit from a better understanding of color.

Change the way you see color in this collection of color palettes spanning art history and pop culture. From the shades of pink in the blush of Madame de Pompadour's cheeks to Prince's concert costumes, this volume decodes the color concepts that can be found in art history and visual culture.

Consisting of eight stencil-like disks that can be placed over ltten's color wheel to compare cool and warm values, complementary colors, and different hues and intensities, this tool helps users explore a myriad of harmonious color.

A useful simplification and condensation of Johannes ltten's major work. The Art of Color, this book covers subjective feeling and objective color principles in detail. It presents the key to understanding color in ltten's color circle and color contrasts.

This volume focuses on the materiality of painting: its mediums, its visions, and specifically its colors as well as the generative relationships between artistic intelligence and tantric vision practices in medieval South Asia

This book uses 21st-century technology to reveal the original colors of ancient sculpture, and reveals how ancient artists in Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Aegean, Greece, and Rome brought unexpected and breathtaking color to their artworks.

The name Korea is derived from Goryeo of the Goryeo dynasty (918-1392). This catalogue documents the famous Goryeo achievements in ceramics and also lesser known Buddhist paintings, illuminated sutras, sculpture, lacquer, and metal crafts, and brings together some of the most exquisite works of Korean art from the tenth to the fourteenth century.

This illustrated book presents the history of the color green in European societies from prehistoric times to today. Examining the evolving place of green in art, clothes, literature, religion, science, and everyday life.

Conceived as a handbook and teaching aid for artists, instructors, and students, this groundbreaking book presents Josef Albers's singular explanation of complex color theory principles. Fifty years after Interaction's initial publication, this anniversary edition presents a significantly expanded selection of close to sixty color studies alongside Albers's original text, demonstrating such principles as color relativity, intensity, and temperature; vibrating and vanishing boundaries; and the illusion of transparency and reversed grounds.

This book reveals the ways in which gold and its color has shaped the artistic cultural history of humanity are no less numerous. Each illustrated chapter is devoted to one historical epoch, explaining how people of that time mined and refined gold, and how they used it for cultural and economic purposes.

During the development of the visual arts in Florence in the 14th and 15th centuries, some artists including Fra Angelico worked in various media. They also produced illuminated manuscripts, frescoes, altarpieces, and numerous pictures for a growing domestic market. The innovative naturalism of Angelico and his followers ends the efflorescence of illumination in Early Renaissance Florence. This illustrated volume is a reference source for the use of color in early manuscripts and the accompanying essays present an overview of Florentine illumination.

Pantone, the worldwide color authority, provides a visual tour of 100 transformative years.

Specific hues shape our everyday actions and define entire generations. In 75 short essays, this book reveals the hidden histories behind a range of fascinating hues—from shocking shades to subtle tints, from jockey silks on the racetrack to corals on the ocean floor. Bursting with bright photographs throughout, this book is a vivid tour across geography and through time that leaves readers with a renewed sense of curiosity and wonder about our colorful world.

Marcia Hall explores how Michelangelo radically broke with his contemporaries' harmonizing use of color in favor of a highly saturated approach; how the robust art market and demand for affordable pictures in 17th-century Netherlands helped popularize subtly colored landscape paintings; how politics and color became entangled during the French Revolution; and how modern artists liberated color from representation as their own role transformed from manipulators of pigments to visionaries known for their individual expression.

For centuries, blue and purple dyed fabrics ranked among the ancient world's most desirable objects, commanding many times their weight in gold. Few people knew their secrets, carefully guarding the valuable knowledge, and strict laws regulated their production and use. This illustrated book tells the story of tekhelet that changed the color of history.

This book navigates centuries of symbolism and complex meanings to present the visual and cultural history of the color red.

In the 1520s, Spanish explorers discovered in the grand Aztec markets of Mexico a dye derived from the cochineal insect. The ensuing global spread of American cochineal is an epic story of empire and desire that pushed art, culture and trade to the edge of the unknown. This book breaks the cochineal story into three dimensions, following the precious bug juice from Mexico to Europe and beyond as it insinuated itself into all forms of art, politics, and commerce.

The journalist and author Brian Murphy chronicles the origins of the madder plant that has led Persian carpets' red brilliance since the earliest weavings through a series of riveting encounters with the natives including the anonymous young girls and women who design the patterns, select the colors and weave the carpets.

The Shahnama, an epic poem from the 10th century chronicles Iran’s mythical history before the founding of Islam. The illuminated pages of the 16th-century Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp, known as the most beautiful and colorful edition ever made, are reproduced in this 2014 publication, which succeeds the Metropolitan Museum’s out-of-print deluxe facsimile edition of 2011. This volume is a historic example of mastery of color in Persian manuscripts as it combines the vibrant, high-quality reproductions of the deluxe edition with enlightening information and a more accessible format.

An illustrated history of yellow from antiquity to the present this book traces the visual, social, and cultural history of yellow. Focusing on European societies, with comparisons from East Asia, India, Africa, and South America.