Description The aim of this book is to assemble a series of chapters, written by experts in their fields, covering the basics of color - and then
some more. In this way, readers are supplied with almost anything they want to know about color outside their own area of expertise.
Thus, the color measurement expert, as well as the general reader, can find here information on the perception, causes, and uses of color.
For the artist there are details on the causes, measurement, perception, and reproduction of color. Within each chapter, authors were
requested to indicate directions of future efforts, where applicable.
One might reasonably expect that all would have been learned
about color in the more than three hundred years since Newton established the fundamentals of color science. This is not true because:
•
the measurement of color still has unresolved complexities (Chapter 2)
• many of the fine details of color vision remain unknown
(Chapter 3)
• every few decades a new movement in art discovers original ways to use new pigments, and dyes continue to be discovered
(Chapter 5)
• the philosophical approach to color has not yet crystallized (Chapter 7)
• new pigments and dyes continue
to be discovered (Chapters 10 and 11)
• the study of the biological and therapeutic effects of color is still in its infancy (Chapter
2).
Color continues to develop towards maturity and the editor believes that there is much common ground between the sciences and the
arts and that color is a major connecting bridge.
Contents
I. The Science of Color. 1. Fundamentals of color science (K. Nassau). 2. The measurement of color (R.T. Marcus). 3.
Color vision (J. Krauskopf). 4. The fifteen causes of color (K. Nassau).
II. Color in Art, Culture and Life. 5. Color
in abstract painting (S. Wurmfield). 6. Color in anthropology and folklore (J.B. Hutchings). 7. The philosophy of color (C.L. Hardin).
8. Color in plants, animals and man (J.B. Hutchings). 9. The biological and therapeutic effects of light (G.C. Brainard). Addendum: Double
blind testing for biological and therapeutic effects of color (K. Nassau).
III. Colorants, the Preservation and the Reproduction
of Color. 10. Colorants: Organic and inorganic pigments (P.A. Lewis). 11. Colorants: Dyes (J.R. Aspland). 12. Color preservation
(K. Nassau). 13. Color Imaging: Printing and photography (G.G. Field). 14. Color encoding in the Photo CD System (E.J. Giorganni,
T.E. Madden). 15. Color displays (H. Lang). Color Section. Index.
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