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Optical color & simultaneity / Ellen Marx ; translated by Geoffrey O'Brien.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Tehon Collection Art and Design QC495 .M3313 1983
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marx, Ellen.
- Standardized Title:
- Couleur optique. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Color.
- Simultaneity (Physics).
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 152 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm
- Other Title:
- Optical color and simultaneity.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Cincinnati ; Toronto : Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1983.
- Language Note:
- Translation of: Couleur optique.
- Contents:
- The three systems of synthesis
- The linguistic standpoint
- The thresholds of vision
- The simultaneous effect
- The impressionists
- The complementaries
- Twenty-four pairs of optical complementaries
- Nonsaturated optical complementaries
- The successive image
- Successive images of nonsaturated colors
- Experimenting with the successive image
- Successive complementary: optical or subtractive?
- Summary table of the successive images
- Experimenting with rotating disks
- Measuring percentages with a graduated circle
- Conclusion
- References
- Screen for projecting the successive image.
- Notes:
- "A Van Nostrand Reinhold Book."
- "English translation by Geoffrey O'Brien Copyright 1983 by Van Nostrand Reinhold ..."
- Pocket contains six transparent sheets (yellow, cyan, magenta), instructions for using them, and a scrren for successive projection.
- Includes bibliographical references (page 152).
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copy: wrapper retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Marx, Ellen. Couleur optique. English. Optical color & simultaneity.
- ISBN:
- 0442238649
- 9780442238643
- OCLC:
- 7307293
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