Color and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction

John Gage

Little, Brown, 1993 - Art - 335 pages

"Colour is fundamental to life and art: yet so diverse is it that it has hardly ever been studied in a comprehensive way. Is it above all a radiant visual stimulus, an intangible function of light, or a material substance to be moulded and arrayed? What does the language of colour tell us? Where does one colour begin and another end?"--BOOK COVER.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Color and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction; Volume 1 of Color & Culture
• Author: John Gage
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Little, Brown, 1993
• ISBN: 0821220438, 9780821220436
• Length: 335 pages
• Subjects: Art / General; Philosophy / Aesthetics