Mikhail Karasik
Subtitle: b colour is optics
By: compiled and edited by Serge-Aljosja Stommels and Albert Lemmens
Contributors: Stommels, Serge-Aljosja; Lemmens, Albert; Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum
Publisher: [Van Abbemuseum]
Published: 2015
Place of publication: [Eindhoven]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 88
ISBN-13: 9789079393145
Subjects: Exhibitions; Influence; Lithography; Collage; Color; Study and teaching; Lithographie; Expositions; Collage (Art); Couleur; Étude et enseignement; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Other titles: Colour is optics
Description: The Russian artist Mikhail Karasik (born 1953) specialises in graphics, in particular, art books of lithographs. A series of graphic works was used as the starting point for this library exhibition, which he made in response to a manual on colour theory by Mikhail Matyushin, Spravotsjnik po tsvetoe (Reference on Color), which was published in 1932. These lithographs were supplemented with other manuals about colour by Josef Albers, Paul Schuitema and Jasper Johns, amongst others. In this way the exhibition provides a summary of the theme of colour in the twentieth-century history of art. All the works come from the LS collection and the library collection of the Van Abbemuseum.
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Library of the Van Abbemuseum June 2-September 25, 2015.

Published in an edition of 500.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Interaction of (books about) colour (interactions)  -- Jared Ash; title: Matiushin's colour theory : expanded optics in application  -- Margareta Tillberg; title: The laws governing the variability of colour combinations. Colour handbook  -- Mikhail Matiushin; title: Colour is optics  -- Mikhail Karasik; title: A homage to Matiushin  -- Irina Karasik; title: Colour is optics/Tsvet optika -- Mikhail Karasik.