Colour in Turner: poetry and truth

Gage, John

Studio Vista

J. M. W. Turner: `A Wonderful Range of Mind`

Examines the life and work of the noted landscape painter and discusses his background and technique, including his training and working methods

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

In this work, which is organized as a series of thematic sections, the chapters build upon one another and map out the professional, social and intellectual context of Turner's career. The author looks at several aspects of Turner's life - his training and working methods, extensive travels, relationship to ancient and modern art, patrons, writing, and intellectual interests - which he relates to specific examples of his work.

This brief, rhetoric of argument teaches critical reading, informal reasoning, and writing as reasoned inquiry, and now features a new collection of student arguments. The Shape of Reason emphasizes the enthymeme as the central basis for the invention and structuring of arguments. This approach blends classical insights into rhetorical reasoning with contemporary understandings of the composing process as generative and organic, situated within discourse communities. The book helps students understand argument as inquiry, stressing the responsibility that writers have–to their audience and to their own ideas–in structuring arguments that earn their conclusions and in considering opposing arguments.

Shape of Reason, The: Argumentative Writing in College

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Pearson

Color and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction

Thames&Hudson

A wide-ranging and engaging introduction to the place and power of color in art. Over the course of the past few centuries, the complex phenomenon of color has received detailed treatment from the perspectives of physics, chemistry, physiology, psychology, linguisitics, and philosophy. However, visual artists—the people who work most closely with color—have rarely been asked for their opinions about this ubiquitous but insolubly mysterious subject. In his new book John Gage, author of the award-winning Color and Culture, focuses on the thoughts and practices of artists. Color in Art is concerned with the history of color, but is not itself a history; instead each chapter develops a theme from one of the aforementioned scientific disciplines from the viewpoint of artists such as Kandinsky, van Gogh, and Kapoor. Flags, synaesthesia, theosophy, theater design, chromotherapy, and chromophobia are among the many topics covered. 180 illustrations, 150 in color.

Color in Art (World of Art)

Graphic Design

Colour is fundamental to life and art: yet so diverse is it that it has hardly ever been studied in a comprehensive way. Is it above all a visual stimulus? A function of light, or a material substance to be moulded and arrayed? What does the language of colour tell us? Where does one colour begin and another end? John Gage considers every conceivable aspect of the subject in this analysis of colour in Western culture. He describes the first theories of colour, articulated by philosophers from Democritus to Aristotle, and attempts to organize it or endow it with symbolic power. He unfolds its religious significance, as an incarnation of the Divine Light in the mosaics and stained glass of Byzantine and medieval Christianity, and its use in heraldry. He shows how the rainbow was made to give up its secrets and how Renaissance artists approached colour with the help of the alchemists. He explores the analysis of the spectrum undertaken by Newton and continued by artists such as Seurat, and the use of the artist's palette as an evolving scale of tones. He traces the influence of Goethe's colour theory and developments as diverse as Matisse's tones and paint manufacture; and considers theories and practices that tried to unite colour and music, or make colour into an abstract language of its own. Unfamiliar texts from all periods are featured, from the treatise that inspired Van Gogh to physicians' scales of hair and urine colours, and fresh light is thrown on the hidden meanings of many familiar masterpieces. The 20th century is often called the period when colour has finally come into its own. This is an attempt to examine what this claim means, and to suggest answers to many perennial questions about the role of colour.

Colour and culture: Practice and meaning from antiquity to abstraction

THAMES HUDSON LTD

COLOUR AND MEANING-JOHN GAGE

Is colour just a physiological phenomenon? Does colour have an effect on feelings? This study argues that the meaning of colour, like language, lies in the particular historical contexts in which it is experienced. Three essays introduce the subject, and the remaining chapters follow themes of colour chronologically, from the early Middle Ages to the 20th century. Topics covered include medieval colour-symbolism, the earliest history of the prism, Newton's optical discoveries, 19th-century psychologists and colour, and 20th-century literature on colour in art.

Colour and Meaning (Paperback) /anglais

A wide-ranging and engaging introduction to the place and power of color in life and art by John Gage, author of the award-winning Color and Culture. 
The complex phenomenon of color has received detailed attention from the perspectives of physics, chemistry, physiology, psychology, linguistics, and philosophy. However, the people who work most closely with color―artists―have rarely been canvassed for their opinions on this mysterious subject. 
John Gage sets out to address this omission by focusing on the thoughts and practices of artists. Color in Art is concerned with the history of color, but is not itself a history; instead each chapter develops a theme from a different scientific discipline, as seen from the viewpoint of such diverse artists such as Vincent van Gogh, Wassily Kandinsky, Sonia Delaunay, Bridget Riley, and Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri. Drawing on examples through the ages, from ancient times to the present, the many topics covered include flags, synesthesia, theosophy, theater design, film, chromotherapy, and chromophobia. 
Featuring a new foreword by art writer Kelly Grovier outlining contemporary developments in the study of color and an updated bibliography, this new edition of this classic text offers a wide-ranging and engaging introduction to the place and power of color in life and art. 193 color illustrations

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Colour in Turner: poetry and truth

J. M. W. Turner: `A Wonderful Range of Mind`

J. M. W. Turner: `A Wonderful Range of Mind`

Shape of Reason, The: Argumentative Writing in College

Color and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction

Color in Art (World of Art)

Colour and culture: Practice and meaning from antiquity to abstraction

COLOUR AND MEANING-JOHN GAGE

Colour and Meaning (Paperback) /anglais

Color in Art (World of Art)