Color and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction

by John Gage

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520222253
• ISBN13: 9780520222250
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 4.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 10.0" x 11.0"