The color compendium
By: Augustine Hope, Margaret Walch ; introduction by Michel Pastoureau.
Contributors: Walch, Margaret.
Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
Subjects: Color -- Encyclopedias
Description: Book features an A to Z encyclopedia, cross-referenced for easy access to all information; sections on painting and harmony, illustrating fundamental color techniques of artists; a section of color systems, explaining their development and use; sections on color communication and symbolism; analysis and discussion of color trends and cycles; biographies of leading historical and contemporary color theorists, and commentaries on their ideas; a fully illustrated section of historic and twentieth-century palettes and their source artifacts.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 337-347.