{"product_id":"color-and-meaning-art-science-and-symbolism-9780520226111","title":"Color and Meaning: Art, Science, and Symbolism","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eColor and Meaning: Art, Science, and Symbolism\u003c\/strong\u003e by Gage, John. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780520226111.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIs color just a physiological reaction, a sensation resulting from different wave lengths of light on receptors in our eyes? Does color have an effect on our feelings? The phenomenon of color is examined in extraordinary new ways in John Gages latest book. His pioneering study is informed by the conviction that color is a contingent, historical occurrence whose meaning, like language, lies in the particular contexts in which it is experienced and interpreted.\n\nGage covers topics as diverse as the optical mixing techniques implicit in mosaic; medieval color-symbolism; the equipment of the manuscript illuminators workshop, the color languages and color practices of Latin America at the time of the Spanish Conquest; the earliest history of the prism; and the color ideas of Goethe and Runge, Blake and Turner, Seurat and Matisse.\n\nFrom the perspective of the history of science, Gage considers the bearing of Newtons optical discoveries on painting, the chemist Chevreuls contact with painters and the growing interest of experimental psychologists in the topic of color in the late nineteenth century, particularly in relation to synaesthesia. He includes an invaluable overview of the twentieth-century literature that bears on the historical interpretation of color in art. Gages explorations further extend the concepts he addressed in his prize-winning book, Color and Culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45256201535541,"sku":"ByrdShop_0520226119","price":56.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780520226111_3dae650e-f236-4788-b4df-7d1bebe735e7.jpg?v=1779938013","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/color-and-meaning-art-science-and-symbolism-9780520226111","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}