<p>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.</p>

Colour and Culture : Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction

Arts & Photography

John Gage

History & Criticism

Thames&Hudson

Colour and Culture

Turner: Rain, steam and speed (Art in context)

Allen Lane.

British Vision Observation and Imagination in British Art 1750-1950

Antwerpen by Mercatorfonds

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