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A Cultural History of Color in the Age of Enlightenment / edited by Carole P. Biggam and Kirsten Wolf.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cultural histories series
- Cultural history of color ; 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Color--Social aspects--History.
- Color.
- Colors--Social aspects--History.
- Colors.
- Color--Social aspects.
- Colors--Social aspects.
- History.
- Art & Visual Culture.
- Color (Design).
- Color (Fashion).
- Cultural History (History).
- History and Theory of Art (Art).
- Local Subjects:
- Art & Visual Culture.
- Color (Design).
- Color (Fashion).
- Cultural History (History).
- History and Theory of Art (Art).
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- A Cultural History of Color in the Age of Enlightenment covers the period 1650 to 1800. From the Baroque to the Neoclassical, color transformed art, architecture, ceramics, jewelry, and glass. Newton, using a prism, demonstrated the seven separate hues, which encouraged the development of color wheels and tables, and the increased standardization of color names. Technological advances in color printing resulted in superb maps and anatomical and botanical images. Identity and wealth were signaled with color, in uniforms, flags, and fashion. And the growth of empires, trade, and slavery encouraged new ideas about color. Color shapes an individual's experience of the world and also how society gives particular spaces, objects, and moments meaning. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Color examines how color has been created, traded, used, and interpreted over the last 5000 years. The themes covered in each volume are color philosophy and science; color technology and trade; power and identity; religion and ritual; body and clothing; language and psychology; literature and the performing arts; art; architecture and interiors; and artefacts.
- Notes:
- Online resource; description from resource and publisher's metadata (viewed on 20 November 2021).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781474206204
- 1474206204
- OCLC:
- 1285917254
- Publisher Number:
- 185944
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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