The Spirit of colors : the art of Karl Gerstner : nine picture chapters and selected essays

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The Spirit of colors : the art of Karl Gerstner : nine picture chapters and selected essays

edited by Henri Stierlin ; translated from the German by Dennis Q. Stephenson ; foreword by Grace Glueck ; contributions by François Fricker and Max Lüscher

MIT Press, c1981

タイトル別名

Spirit of colors

Art of Karl Gerstner

統一タイトル

Geist der Farbe

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注記

Translation of: Der Geist der Farbe

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内容説明

"I cannot see why sensation should be less precise than thought. The scientist designs conceptual models, the artist perceptual models."--Karl GerstnerColor is Gerstner's essential medium. In this book, he presents the pure sensation of color with great precision. He explores color physically, sumptuously, yet with cool, formal clarity in the book's seventy color plates. He also pursues the subject of color historically and psychologically in a series of essays, citing examples from Aristotle to Andreas Speiser, from Goethe to Max Luscher; theories and speculations about the character and employment of color and form. His notes and observations are often couched in a poetic, aphoristic manner: "Kandinsky: in general, then, color is a meansof exercising a direct influence on the soul.The color is the piano key.The eye is the hammer.The soul is the piano key with all its strings.""Albers: if one says 'red'and 50 persons are listening to him, they will be imagining 50 reds.And no doubt: all these reds will be very different.""Goethe worked in his green room.In the blue one he welcomed guests he didn't like.So that they would leave soon."The essays include: "The Spirit of Color: The" Farbenlehre "of Goethe; Conception--Perception: Fifteen Aspects to a Sentence of Max Bill; The Precision of Sensation;" and "Is Constructive Art at an End? Or its beginning?" The illustrations include the "Color Sounds," the "Color Forms," and the "Color Lines."

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA04551101
  • ISBN
    • 0262070847
  • LCCN
    81082618
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 原本言語コード
    ger
  • 出版地
    Cambridge, Mass.
  • ページ数/冊数
    225 p.
  • 大きさ
    25 cm
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