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Interaction of color : Josef Albers ; [foreword by Nicholas Fox Weber].

Author(s): Albers, Josef

Interaction of color : Josef Albers ; [foreword by Nicholas Fox Weber].
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Main Title
Interaction of color
Author(s)
Albers, Josef
Publisher
New Haven : Yale University Press, 1975
Collation
xi, 145 pages : illustrations (some color)
24 cm.
ISBN
9780300115956
Dewey Class
701.85
Contents
1. Color recollection : visual memory -- 2. Color reading and contexture -- 3. Why color paper : instead of pigment and paint -- 4. A color has many faces : the relativity of color -- 5. Lighter and / or darker : light intensity, lightness -- Gradation studies : new presentations -- Color intensity : brightness -- 6. 1 color appears as 2 : looking like the reversed grounds -- 7. 2 different colors look alike : subtraction of color -- 8. Why color deceptions? : after-image, simultaneous contrast -- 9. Color mixture in paper : illusion of transparence -- 10. Factual mixtures : additive and subtractive -- 11. Transparence and space-illusion -- Color boundaries and plastic action -- 12. Optical mixture : after-image revised -- 13. The Bezold effect -- 14. Color intervals and transformations -- 15. The middle mixture again : intersecting colors -- 16. Color juxtaposition : harmony : quantity -- 17. Film color and volume color : 2 natural effects -- 18. Free studies : a challenge to imagination -- Stripes : restricted juxtaposition -- Fall leaf studies : an American discovery -- 19. The masters : color instrumentation -- 20. The Weber-Fechner Law : the measure in mixture -- 21. From color temperature to humidity in color -- 22. Vibrating boundaries : enforced contours -- 23. Equal light intensity : vanishing boundaries -- 24. Color theories : color systems -- 25. On teaching color : some color terms -- Explanation of color terms -- Variants versus variety -- 26. In lieu of a bibliography : my first collaborators -- Plates and commentary.
Language
English
Subject
Color -- Study and teaching
BRN
4169

Notes

  • Original ed.: 1963.
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