Title: Colour Histories
Description: Knowledge of the properties, mixtures, harmonies, meanings and uses of colour has always been widely distributed among painters and architects, dyers and printers, pigment producers and merchants, physicists and chemists. This volume focuses on how different communities interacted with respect to their colour knowledge and practices and hereby provides a step towards a better understanding of a central cultural development.
Subjects: Technology, history, Color, History, Symbolism of colors, Color in art, Color vision, Färger, Historia, Färgsymbolik, Färglära (konst), Färgperception