‎Gage, John‎
‎Colour and Culture‎

‎Colour and Culture - Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction ‎

‎Thames and Hudson Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 2012 Book condition, Etat : Bon "paperback, editor's blue and white wrappers, illustrated by "" Iridescent Interpretations "" by Giacomo Balla, 1912" In-4 1 vol. - 269 pages‎

‎103 black and white text-figures and 120 colored text-figures, and a frontispice 3rd edition, 2012 "Contents, Chapitres : Introduction - The classical inheritance - The fortunes of Apelles - Light from the east - A dionysian aesthetic - Colour-language, colour-symbols - Unweaving the rainbow - Disegno versus colore - The peacock's tail - Colour under control : The reign of Newton - The palette : "" Mother of all colours "" - Colours of the mind : Goethe's legacy - The substance of colour - The sound of colour - Colour without theory : The role of abstraction - Acknowledgments - Notes to the text - Bibliography and concordance - List of illustrations - Index" near fine copy, the editor's binding is near fine, inferior right corner on the front cover and superior left corner on the back cover very lightly folded, inside is fine, clean and unmarked‎