Color Space and Its Divisions
Subtitle: Color Order from Antiquity to the Present
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Published: March 31, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780471326700
First sentence: Attempting to understand our place in the world and classifying things and experiences is a well-known human trait.
Description: It has been postulated that humans can differentiate between millions of gradations in color. Not surprisingly, no completely adequate, detailed catalog of colors has yet been devised, however the quest to understand, record, and depict color is as old as the quest to understand the fundamentals of the physical world and the nature of human consciousness. Rolf Kuehni's Color Space and Its Divisions: Color Order from Antiquity to the Present represents an ambitious and unprecedented history of man's inquiry into color order, focusing on the practical applications of the most contemporary developments in the field.