num_pages: 240
description: What is color? From Aristotle and Plato through Newton and Goethe to Wittgenstein philosophers and scientists have worked to understand and categorize color while artists have made their own efforts to demonstrate its enigmatic logics. This is a book about color and a book about color and art. Across eight essays and more than 150 works of art drawn from the collections of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art and Merzbacher Collection this book aims to define color as a phenomenon that manifests across many different lines of thought and areas of the history of art the history of ideas psychology psychiatry and cognitive science architecture marketing literature and music. The essayists for the volume are John Gage Erich H. Buxbaum Jacob Wamberg Klaus Stromer Morten Kringelbach with Kristine Rmer Thomsen Gertrud Olsson Lars Handesten Steen Chr. Steensen Helle Crenzien and Stephanie Rachum.
language: English
title: Color in Art
publisher: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art