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A natural history of color : the science behind what we see and how we see it / Rob DeSalle and Hans Bachor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- DeSalle, Rob, author.
- Bachor, H.-A. (Hans-Albert), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Colors--Science.
- Colors.
- Colors--Art.
- Colors--History.
- Colors--Social aspects.
- History.
- Genre:
- Art.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 254 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Pegasus Books edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Pegasus Books, 2020.
- Summary:
- Is color a phenomenon of science or a thing of art? Over the years, color has dazzled, enhanced, and clarified the world we see, embraced through the experimental palettes of painting, the advent of the color photograph, Technicolor pictures, color printing, on and on, a vivid and vibrant celebrated continuum. These turns to represent reality in "living color" echo our evolutionary reliance on and indeed privileging of color as a complex and vital form of consumption, classification, and creation. It's everywhere we look, yet do we really know much of anything about it? Finding color in stars and light, examining the system of classification that determines survival through natural selection, studying the arrival of color in our universe and as a fulcrum for philosophy, DeSalle's brilliant A Natural History of Color establishes that an understanding of color on many different levels is at the heart of learning about nature, neurobiology, individualism, even a philosophy of existence. Color and a fine tuned understanding of it is vital to understanding ourselves and our consciousness.-- Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Prologue
- The color of the universe
- Color without eyes
- Color with eyes
- The colors of evolution
- Gary Larson's Animal coloring book
- The colors of history and culture
- The color of humans
- The color of our minds
- Epilogue: The color of existence.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-240) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781643134420
- 1643134426
- OCLC:
- 1125359106
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