Author: GAGE, JOHN
Title: Colour and culture. Practice and meaning from Antiquity to abstraction
Description: London: Thames and Hudson, 2005 (reprint); 4to (27.5cm), frontispiece, 335pp., black-white and coliur illustrations, endnotes, bibliography, index, softcover w. pictorial front. V. good copy, no inscriptions. Scarce in NL. ¶ From the blurb: 'Colour is fundamental to life and art: yet so diverse it is that is has hardly ever been studied in a comprehensive way. [...] What does the language of colour tell us? Where does one colour begin and another end?' Highly praised text with a bibliography of 2408 titles and 222 illustrations.

Keywords: history of art