Dimensional Color

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W. W. Norton & Company, 2003 - Art - 160 pages
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To the basic grammar of color and form presented in the first edition of Dimensional Color, Lois Swirnoff adds a chapter on color structure and expands one on color and light.
 

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Contents

Introduction
1
Theoretical Background
17
Color Space and Time
35
The Geometry of Brightness and the Perception of Form
59
Configuration Pattern and Dimension
69
Chiaro e Scuro Inverted
79
Color and Visual Organization
87
Color and Light
115
Color Structure
129
Conform or Transform?
135
Visual Education
145
Notes
151
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Dimensional Color
Lois Swirnoff
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Page 153 - Collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC , Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966 (Shown at Wilmington and Buffalo only) • 5.
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About the author (2003)

Lois Swirnoff is Feltman Chair at the Cooper Union Art School in New York. Painter, photographer, and visual logician, she has exhibited her work internationally, and has taught at Harvard University, the University of California at Los Angeles, and Skidmore and Wellesley Colleges.

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TitleDimensional Color
Design science collection
AuthorLois Swirnoff
Editionillustrated
PublisherW. W. Norton & Company, 2003
ISBN0393731022, 9780393731026
Length160 pages
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Art / Color Theory
Art / Techniques / General
Design / Graphic Arts / General
  
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