Item Number: 132278 Title: Colour Histories : Science, art, and technology in the 17th and 18th centuries Author: Bushart, Magdalena ; Friedrich Steinle (eds) Price: Not Available ISBN: 9783110335736 Description: Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015. 24cm., hardcover, 420pp. illus. Papers from a conference held 28.-30. June 2012 at TU Berlin. Contents: S. Kusukawa, Richard Waller's Table of Colours (1686) ; F. Dijksterhuis, Perceptions of Colours by Different Eyes ; F. Steinle, Colour Knowledge in the Eighteenth Century - Practice, Systematisation, and Natural Philosophy ; B. Belhoste, Dyeing at the Gobelins in the Eighteenth Century - The Challenge of Quemizet ; A. Stijnman/E. Savage, "Material Colours" - The Heritage of Colour Knowledge in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Printshops ; S. Wager, "Almost an Original" - Eighteenth-Century French Porcelain and the Materiality of Reproduction ; O. Müller, Border Spectra in the Skies of Hokusai and Hiroshige - Japanese Traces of Newton or Goethe? A Colour Mystery ; A. Yuen Wong, Kingfisher Blue in Ming Arts - Status Symbol, Material Invention and Intercultural Connections ; TG. Baker, Colour in Three Seventeenth-Century Scholastic Textbooks ; R. Sammern, "Painting upon the Life" - Colour Knowledge and Colour Practice in English Art Writing and Cosmetic Treatises of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries ; U. Boskamp, Primary Colours in Eighteenth-Century France - Concepts and Uses ; R. Rehm, On the "Beauty and Perfection" of Yellow, Red, and Blue - Anton Raphael Mengs and the Origin of Colours ; D. Brafman, The Putrid and the Pure - Colour-Theory of a Baroque Neapolitan Alchemist ; K. Leonhard, Flowering Colour - Still Life Painting and Baroque Colour Theory ; I. Magureanu, Colour - from Condemnation in the Scientific Discourse to Rehabilitation in Art Theory ; T. Kelley, Colour Trouble.
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