All Aspects of Color Resources: Psychology & Science

The science journalist Kai Kupferschmidt investigates the science and nature of his favorite color as it takes him from a biotech laboratory in Japan and a volcanic lake in Oregon to Brandenburg, Germany, home of the last surviving blue-feathered Spix’s macaws.

This book examines life before there was vision and considers how it changed when the image-forming eye evolved. It goes back to the earliest life on Earth to trace the evolution of vision and color in nature.

This book is divided into three sections studying the relationship of visual perception to color expression in art. First the history of nineteenth and twentieth-century color expression is traced from Turner through Impressionism to Op Art. Next the parallel history of color theory is covered. Finally, the new concepts and interpretations of illumination, color constancy, adaptation, and the Law of Field Size, which created a revolution in the possibilities of color expression in art and their aesthetic implications, are discussed.

This edition includes an entirely new section devoted to the psychology of color. Leatrice Eiseman helps readers determine their best color choices and suggests why some colors may inspire their creativity while others don't. The book includes new color palette sections along with expanded and updated color trends.

Originally published as two separate titles, this new edition combines Nor Hall's study of the lives of Jungian women analysts with Linda Fierz-David's classic psychological analysis on the mystery chamber in Roman Pompeii and its frescoes depicting an initiation ceremony for women.

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

An account of the age-old quest for brighter colors, this book explores the remarkable innovation and fascinating exchange of ideas between science and craft that has allowed for the luminous manifestations of our built and adorned world. It takes readers on a globe-trotting journey, tracing an arc from the earliest humans to the digitized, synthesized present era for high-stakes corporate espionage and the digital revolution that's rewriting the rules of color forever.

In 1856 eighteen-year-old English chemist William Perkin accidentally discovered a way to mass-produce color. In this book, Simon Garfield explains how the experimental mishap that produced an odd shade of purple changed fashion, and industrial applications of chemistry research.

Finding color in stars and light, examining the system of classification that determines survival through natural selection, studying the arrival of color in our universe and as a fulcrum for philosophy, the author establishes that an understanding of color on many different levels is at the heart of learning about nature, neurobiology, individualism, even a philosophy of existence. Color and a fine tuned understanding of it is vital to understanding ourselves and our consciousness.

In ten wide-ranging chapters, each devoted to a different color, the authors examine the various ways colors have shaped and continue to shape our social and moral imaginations. Each individual color becomes the focal point for a consideration of one of the extraordinary ways in which color appears and matters in our lives.

An exploration of the relationship between human energy and color, visualized through more than 200 photographs, this publication explores the nature of the human aura, and the notion that aura images may not only capture a person’s essence in that moment, but reveal characteristics of their overall disposition. The author describes what all the colors suggest, considering their many variations and nuances, and in relationship to each other.

The author brings readers into the heart of the color red to better understand its unique powers, as he takes us from a thirty-four-thousand-year-old shaman burial dress to the iPhone screen, exploring its myriad of purposes, and the materials from which we have looked to harvest it. He also details how the pursuit of this color drove medieval alchemy and modern chemistry alike, and its many symbolic uses.

Using color to study human civilization and psychology, this volume focuses on seventy-five shades, dyes, and hues across fashion and politics, art and war, to tell the vivid story of human culture.

This volume explores ideas that combine meditation, art therapy and hands-on exploration of sensory awareness similar to Buddhist meditation.

First published in 1814, Werner's Nomenclature of Colours is a taxonomic guide to the colors of the natural world that has been used by artists and scientists for more than two centuries. This book is an artifact from the golden age of natural history and global exploration. Charles Darwin used it to identify colors in nature during his HMS Beagle voyage. This new edition brings the classic work back to life.

This book offers a highly visual exploration of the science of color, organized by 50 of the most essential questions about color across a variety of fields such as physics, chemistry, biology, technology, and psychology. It examines how and why we see color; how color relates to light; what the real primary colors are; how biology, language, and culture affect the colors that we see; and more.

A kaleidoscopic exploration that traverses history, literature, art, and science to reveal humans' unique and vibrant relationship with color. The author takes seven elemental colors, black, red, yellow, blue, white, purple, and green as it uncovers behind each a root idea, based on visual resemblances and common symbolism throughout history. He also examines the science of how our eyes and brains interpret light and color, and shows how this is inherently linked with the meanings we give to hue.

From the perspective of the history of science, the author considers the relevance of Newton's optical discoveries to painting, the chemist Chevreul's contact with painters and the work of experimental psychologists on the topic of color in the late 19th century, particularly in relation to synaesthesia. He includes an overview of the 20th century literature that relates to the historical interpretation of color in art. Gage also covers the optical mixing techniques in mosaic; medieval color-symbolism; the equipment of the manuscript illuminator's workshop, and more.