Perception & Psychology
Color theory explores how colors influence human perception and psychology, as well as how they interact with one another. The books below highlight the relationships between colors and demonstrates how they can be combined to create various effects.
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Color Perception
Cognition through Color by
Cognition through Color reviews the current status of investigations of color cognition from the standpoint of modern neuropsychology. It provides clear evidence, based on a large body of empirical study that includes the author's own work on color perception and naming, that color appears to be one of the basic building blocks or modules from which perception is constructed and our memories organized.
Call Number: JFE 91-4934ISBN: 0262041154Publication Date: 1991-05-01
Color and Human Response by
Faber Bitten pioneered in the field of "functional" color, using color properties to promote human welfare psychologically, visually, and physiologically; in this volume he has assembled a wealth of information on the subject. Color and Human Response offers intriguing factual and hypothetical observations on the influences of color in life, supported by historical references and the latest scientific data.
Call Number: JSE 79-470ISBN: 0442207875Publication Date: 1978-09-01
Color Perception by
Color has been studied for centuries, but has never been completely understood. Digital technology has recently sparked a burgeoning interdisciplinary interest in color. The fact that color is a quality of perception rather than a physical quality brings up a host of interesting questions of interest to both artists and scholars. This volume brings together chapters by psychologists, philosophers, computer scientists, and artists to explore the nature of human color perception with the aim to further our understanding of color by encouraging interdisciplinary interaction.
Call Number: JFE 00-14861ISBN: 0195136675Publication Date: 2000-07-27
Color Perception in Art by
Faber Birren, one of the best-known colorists of our time, prepares us for what he believes will be a new era of color expression. Pioneered by gestalt psychology many secrets of the brain are rapidly being discovered, resulting in creative new principles of color. The book is divided into three sections. 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.
Call Number: *R-ART ND1495.P8 B57 1976ISBN: 0442207840Publication Date: 1976-07-01
Colour Hunting: how colour influences what we buy, make and feel by
Colour Hunting: How Colour Influences What We Buy, Make and Feel presents projects---all richly illustrated with photographs and drawings---that pioneer techniques and experiments with fabrication processes on a small scale, with a do-it-yourself attitude as well as large-scale research projects on paints and coatings, carried out by international companies. The book is divided into three chapters: commerce (sell, buy), aesthetics (make), and well-being (feel).
Call Number: NK1548 .H86 2011gISBN: 9789077174272Publication Date: 2011-08-16
Green Sky, Blue Grass by
An interdisciplinary investigation into how colors vary in the eyes and minds of people across cultures worldwide. The title of this volume and its accompanying exhibition at the Museum of World Cultures in Frankfurt alludes to ancient Japanese poetry in which the sky is sometimes described as green and the grass as blue. The world is full of color no matter where one looks, but not every culture interprets the spectrum of shades in the same way, nor do individual people always see the same colors despite our physiological similarities.
Call Number: JQE 22-439ISBN: 9783735607515Publication Date: 2021-08-10
Human color perception by
Surveys the field of color vision from psychophysics through physiology of the visual system.
Call Number: PEY (Sheppard, J. J. Human color perception)Publication Date: 1968
The Objective Eye by
John Hyman's The Objective Eye is a radical treatment of this problem, deeply informed by the history of philosophy and science, but entirely fresh. The Objective Eye explores the fundamental concepts we use constantly in our most innocent thoughts and conversations about art, as well as in the most sophisticated art theory.
Call Number: JQE 06-610ISBN: 0226365522Publication Date: 2006-05-15
The Perception of Light and Color by
The perception of light and colour / C. A. Padgham and J. E. Saunders. Bibliography: p. 179.
Call Number: JSD 75-530ISBN: 0125436505Publication Date: 1975-01-01
Vision and Art by
This groundbreaking yet accessible study by a noted Harvard neurobiologist draws on history and her own cutting-edge discoveries to explain how the effects of various works of art can be understood by the way the eye and the brain of the viewer work.
Call Number: JQZ 12-1817ISBN: 0810904063Publication Date: 2002-05-07
Psychology
Alive with Color! by
Explains how to use color in home decorating, fashion and wardrobe, garden, and office environments to express your personality.
Call Number: 3-MBM 86-4465ISBN: 9780874915525Publication Date: 1983-04-01
Chromophobia by
The central argument of Chromophobia is that a chromophobic impulse - a fear of corruption or contamination through color - lurks within much Western cultural and intellectual thought. This is apparent in the many and varied attempts to purge color, either by making it the property of some "foreign body" - the oriental, the feminine, the infantile, the vulgar, or the pathological - or by relegating it to the realm of the superficial, the supplementary, the inessential, or the cosmetic.
Call Number: 3-MBM 01-7674ISBN: 1861890745Publication Date: 2000-09-01
Color by
Explains the nature of color and color perception, describes the use of color in advertising and design, and looks at how colors interacts.
Call Number: 3-MBM+ 82-488ISBN: 0895350378Publication Date: 1980-09-01
Color Codes by
A series of interconnected essays on the uses and meanings of color.
Call Number: JQZ 12-3632ISBN: 0874516714Publication Date: 1995-02-01
Color Fundamentals: with 100 color schemes. by
The study of color is not just what we see with our eyes, but must include a broad exploration of the physical, physiological, psychological, and aesthetic components of what we experience and identify as color. This groundbreaking work fully embraces the multidimensionality of color, and strives to imbue the reader with "a comprehensive, integrated concept upon which is based the power to use color intelligently and effectively."
Call Number: MBM (Graves, M. E. Color fundamentals)ISBN: 9781635610956Publication Date: 1952
Colour code: why we see red, feel blue and go green by
Seeing red -- Yellow fevers -- Into the blue -- House of orange -- Purple reign -- Sea of green -- Pink is for boys -- Brown in town -- The black stuff -- The grey area -- The whiteness of being.
Call Number: QC495.3 .S56 2021gISBN: 9781781256268Publication Date: 2021- Colour Hunting by
Professionals in design, fashion, architecture, and art are constantly exploring to find good solutions regarding color. In a globalizing world, color requires less time to "read" than any other means of communication. The book is divided into three chapters: commerce (sell, buy), aesthetics (make), and well-being (feel). Illustrated pages are followed by in-depth case studies and interviews regarding the use of color for these three purposes.
Call Number: NK1548 .H86 2011gISBN: 9789077174272Publication Date: 2011-08-16
Colour Studies by
This volume presents some of the latest research in colour studies by specialists across a wide range of academic disciplines. Many are represented here, including anthropology, archaeology, the fine arts, linguistics, onomastics, philosophy, psychology and vision science.
Call Number: P305.19.C64 C76 2014xISBN: 9789027212191Publication Date: 2014-11-26
Dimensional Color by
Modern communication structure techniques enable us to transmit and reconstitute images without the need for perception, which is a complex process. Perception involves more than is not specific to any particular verbal meets the eye: it involves processing language.
Call Number: JQF 15-1355ISBN: 0817632530Publication Date: 1988-12-01
On Color by
Kastan and Farthing, a scholar and a painter, respectively, investigate color from numerous perspectives: literary, historical, cultural, anthropological, philosophical, art historical, political, and scientific. In ten lively and wide-ranging chapters, each devoted to a different color, they 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.
Call Number: JFD 19-1571ISBN: 9780300171877Publication Date: 2018-05-22
The Primary Colors by
Three interrelated essays on the primary colors presents the artistic, aesthetic, emotional, and economic dimensions of each color in an anecdotal format of poetry and humor.
Call Number: JFC 94-3829ISBN: 0805031057Publication Date: 1994-08-01
The Secondary Colors by
A collection of three meditations on purple, orange, and green encompassing poetry, song, fable, gossip, and trivia.
Call Number: JFC 96-2180ISBN: 0805044582Publication Date: 1996-05-01
The Psychology of Color and Design by
Explores, from an analytical and commercial point of view, major issues of the psychology of color, including historical and cultural factors, personality and color, color perception and response, and applied use.
Call Number: JFD 99-17371ISBN: 0822603136Publication Date: 1975-01-01
The Visual Biography of Color by
The book moves the reader through the visible spectrum, as they turn the pages they exist inside of red, then orange, then yellow. In red, they encounter the evolution of red states in the U.S., the compilation of every red subway line in every major world city collapsed onto a single page, and they see a radiant wheel that displays every major song that has red in its title. As they continue to move through the book they'll read about how artists, musicians, and other great thinkers have considered individual colors.
Call Number: NK1548 .J33 2017gISBN: 9781939621351Publication Date: 2017-03-15
