Colour histories : science, art, and technology in the 17th and 18th centuries / edited by Magdalena Bushart and Friedrich Steinle.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bushart, Magdalena, editor.

Steinle, Friedrich, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Color--History--17th century.

Color.

Color--History--18th century.

Symbolism of colors.

Color in art.

Color vision.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 420 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Color histories

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : Walter De Gruyter GmbH, [2015]

Summary:

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Systems

Richard Waller's Table of Colours (1686) / Sachiko Kusukawa Kusukawa, Sachiko 3

Perceptions of Colours by Different Eyes / Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis Dijksterhuis, Fokko Jan 23

Colour Knowledge in the Eighteenth Century: Practice, Systematisation, and Natural Philosophy / Friedrich Steinle Steinle, Friedrich 43

Dyeing at the Gobelins in the Eighteenth Century: The Challenge of Quémizet / Bruno Belhoste Belhoste, Bruno 67

Practices

"Material Colours": The Heritage of Colour Knowledge in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Printshops / Ad Stijnman Stijnman, Ad, Elizabeth Savage (Upper) Savage, Elizabeth, (Upper) 95

"Almost an original": Eighteenth-Century French Porcelain and the Materiality of Reproduction / Susan M. Wager Wager, Susan M. 115

Border Spectra in the Skies of Hokusai and Hiroshige: Japanese Traces of Newton or Goethe? A Colour Mystery / Olaf Müller Müller, Olaf 129

Kingfisher Blue in Ming Arts: Status Symbol, Material Invention and Intercultural Connections / Aida Yuen Wong Wong, Aida Yuen 145

Concepts

Colour in Three Seventeenth-Century Scholastic Textbooks / Tawrin Baker Baker, Tawrin 161

"Painting upon the Life": Colour Knowledge and Colour Practice in English Art Writing and Cosmetic Treatises of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries / Romana Sammern Sammern, Romana 179

Primary Colours in Eighteenth-Century France: Concepts and Uses / Ulrike Boskamp Boskamp, Ulrike 199

On the "Beauty and Perfection" of Yellow, Red, and Blue: Anton Raphael Mengs and the Origin of Colours / Robin Rehm Rehm, Robin 223

Theories

The Putrid and the Pure: Colour-Theory of a Baroque Neapolitan Alchemist / David Brafman Brafman, David 243

Flowering Colour - Still Life Painting and Baroque Colour Theory / Karin Leonhard Leonhard, Karin 261

Colour: from Condemnation in the Scientific Discourse to Rehabilitation in Art Theory / Ioana Magureanu Magureanu, Ioana 295.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783110335736

3110335735

OCLC:

920680610

Publisher Number:

9783110335736