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7 books match the query 'Color Theory'
A Visual Guide to Classical Art Theory for Drawing and Painting Students
Mantle, Eric
Parkhurst Brothers, Inc., 2009
Eric Mantle presents the basics of classical theory in a clear and concise manner for all beginning drawing and painting students. His book features diagrams that illustrate every concept. Students will see the complexities of color theory and understand how to create the illusion of volume and depth on a 2-dimensional surface. “As an art student,” Professor Mantle recalls, “I was frequently frustrated by instructional books that gave lengthy verbal descriptions of visual concepts and then showed small and/or unclear diagrams of those concepts. As an art teacher, I found that my students would gain a clearer understanding of a visual concept if my verbal explanation was combined with a diagram of that concept.”
A Visual Guide to Classical Art Theory is great for both traditional and non-traditional media. Each page, theory and diagram represents a different tool for the artist to use. Through their use, the artist will find an infinite number of solutions. Artists also may use the book to create a trompe-l’oeil effect in graffiti art or the illusion of volume and depth on the computer. A Visual Guide to Art Theory is presented in a unique, non-verbal format that clearly illustrates the effect of perspective on color, light and shade.
Bright Earth
Art and the Invention of ColorPhilip Ball
University of Chicago Press, 2003
Finalist for the 2002 National Book Critics Circle Award.
Chromatic Algorithms
Synthetic Color, Computer Art, and Aesthetics after CodeCarolyn L. Kane
University of Chicago Press, 2014
Chromatic Algorithms reveals the fascinating history behind digital color, tracing it from the work of a few brilliant computer scientists and experimentally minded artists in the late 1960s and early ‘70s through to its appearance in commercial software in the early 1990s. Mixing philosophy of technology, aesthetics, and media analysis, Carolyn Kane shows how revolutionary the earliest computer-generated colors were—built with the massive postwar number-crunching machines, these first examples of “computer art” were so fantastic that artists and computer scientists regarded them as psychedelic, even revolutionary, harbingers of a better future for humans and machines. But, Kane shows, the explosive growth of personal computing and its accompanying need for off-the-shelf software led to standardization and the gradual closing of the experimental field in which computer artists had thrived.
Even so, the gap between the bright, bold presence of color onscreen and the increasing abstraction of its underlying code continues to lure artists and designers from a wide range of fields, and Kane draws on their work to pose fascinating questions about the relationships among art, code, science, and media in the twenty-first century.
Color Harmonies
Augusto Garau
University of Chicago Press, 1993
Garau, a painter who teaches the psychology of form, pays particular attention to the way colors behave when organized in patterns. His theory of color combination addresses two principal compositional elements: the relations between figure and ground and the phenomenon of transparency.
Garau meticulously analyzes the use of color in paintings by masters such as Cézanne, Picasso, and Matisse to show how his theory applies to actual works of art. Containing many full-color examples, his introduction to the workings of color relations is of great practical use to art historians and critics, artists, interior decorators, fashion and set designers, and anyone who works with color to display information or convey emotions.
"In an area of the psychology of art where reliable guidance is still so hard to come by, [Garau's] well-supported contributions to the theory of color composition ought to be welcomed by practitioners and scholars alike."—from the Foreword by Rudolf Arnheim
Intersecting Colors
Josef Albers and His ContemporariesVanja Malloy, editor
Amherst College Press, 2015
Monochrome Multitudes
Art of One Color from Albers to ZeislerEdited by Orianna Cacchione and Christine Mehring
University of Chicago Press, 2027
A vividly illustrated volume tracing the monochrome as a fundamental yet expansive strategy in twentieth- and twenty-first-century art.
Exploring a fantastic range of monochromatic artworks, Monochrome Multitudes upends traditional accounts of abstraction, revisits modernist ideas, and reveals the creative possibilities and global resonance of a seemingly reductive art form.
Bringing together examples spanning five continents, the book considers how artists such as El Anatsui, Mark Bradford, Lygia Clark, Lucio Fontana, Ellsworth Kelly, Yayoi Kusama, Kasimir Malevich, Gerhard Richter, Betye Saar, Amanda Williams, Haegue Yang, as well as little-known early cartoonists have experimented with monochrome compositions. Scholars of art history, film, music, law, disability studies, astrophysics, neurobiology, mathematics, and more reflect on monochrome artworks that build on foundational components of modernism. Together, they illuminate often overlooked cultural, political, racial, and gendered meanings of artworks; reveal the significance of materials ranging from fiber, wall paint, and videotape, to footballs, pantyhose, and candy; and engage North American art in a global dialog extending into Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa. Artworks are presented in monochromatic groupings—yellow, blue, white, red, gray, and black—and thematic sections trace connections across topics such as the body, the environment, urban space, sound, and media.
Safety Orange
Anna Watkins Fisher
University of Minnesota Press, 2021
How fluorescent orange symbolizes the uneven distribution of safety and risk in the neoliberal United States
Safety Orange first emerged in the 1950s as a bureaucratic color standard in technical manuals and federal regulations in the United States. Today it is most visible in the contexts of terror, pandemic, and environmental alarm systems; traffic control; work safety; and mass incarceration. In recent decades, the color has become ubiquitous in American public life—a marker of the extreme poles of state oversight and abandonment, of capitalist excess and dereliction. Its unprecedented saturation encodes the tracking of those bodies, neighborhoods, and infrastructures judged as worthy of care—and those deemed dangerous and expendable.
Here, Anna Watkins Fisher uses Safety Orange as an interpretive key for theorizing the uneven distribution of safety and care in twenty-first-century U.S. public life and for pondering what the color tells us about neoliberalism’s intensifying impact often hiding in plain sight in ordinary and commonplace phenomena.
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