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Colour and Culture
Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction
John Gage
£50.00
‘A book of extraordinary erudition and beauty’ Sunday Telegraph
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John Gage’s groundbreaking analysis of colour has been transforming our perceptions for more than three decades. Indispensable to anyone fascinated by art, psychology and history, this remarkable book considers every conceivable aspect of colour theory in Western culture.
From Roman symbolism to Bauhaus and beyond, this new edition, now featuring full colour illustrations throughout, will continue to serve as a pillar of visual arts scholarship.
Reviews
'Exemplary ... wonderfully lucid'
Richard Wollheim, The Times Literary Supplement
'The standard for years to come'
Sir Ernst Gombrich, The Burlington Magazine
'A book of extraordinary erudition and beauty'
Sunday Telegraph
'No one interested in painting can afford not to study it'
London Review of Books
'I will mine Gage’s mountains of information for years to come'
Apollo
'Rarely has an academic mind made itself more approachable'
The Times
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Book Details
Format: PLC (no jacket)
Size: 26.4 x 20.6 cm
Extent: 448 pp
Illustrations: 223
Publication date: 24 October 2024
ISBN: 9780500027936
About the Author
John Gage was an acknowledged international authority on the history of art and colour, and wrote many books on the subject, including Colour and Meaning, Colour in Art and the award-winning Colour and Culture, all published by Thames & Hudson. He was Head of the Department of History of Art at Cambridge University from 1992 to 1995.
