The Forms of Color
Subtitle: The Interaction of Visual Elements
By: Karl Gerstner ; [translation, Dennis a. Stephenson ; photographs, Alex von Steiger, Siegfried Himmer, Michael von Graffenried].
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England
Language: eng; ger
Translated from: ger
Translation of: Die Formen der Farben
Number of pages: 179
Copyright date: 1986
Subjects: Color in art; Form perception; Geometry
Notes: Translation of: Die Formen der Farben.
Table of contents: title: Thanks
pagenum: 6; title: Introduction
pagenum: 8; label: Chapter 1
title: The color universe
pagenum: 12; title: The earliest and the latest model; label: Chapter 2
title: Form systems
pagenum: 26; title: Nine miniature essays on the history of geometry; title: Euclidean geometry
pagenum: 28; title: The geometry of measure
pagenum: 30; title: Projective geometry
pagenum: 32; title: Coordinate geometry
pagenum: 34; title: Geometry as a universal law
pagenum: 36; title: Group theory
pagenum: 38; title: Non-Euclidean geometry
pagenum: 40; title: Topology
pagenum: 42; title: Fractal geometry
pagenum: 44; label: Chapter 3
title: A picture from the Alhambra
pagenum: 46; title: A form system of an alien culture; label: Chapter 4
title: Kamal Ali's pattern
pagenum: 58; title: A form system for one thousand and one pictures; label: Chapter 5
title: The harmony of forms
pagenum: 74; title: An (almost forgotten) form system by Wilhelm Ostwald; label: Chapter 6
title: Opus 91 by Hans Hinterreiter
pagenum: 90; title: Organs of colors, forms and networks and their interplay; label: Chapter 7
title: Color Signs
pagenum: 108; title: Kandinsky and the consequences; label: Chapter 8
title: The forms of colors
pagenum: 124; title: To the point; label: Chapter 9
title: Correspondences
pagenum: 162; title: On the concord and discord of sounds, colors and forms