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Tables of Contents for Color and Culture
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
7
4
The Classical Inheritance
11
18
Archaeology and philology
Greek theories of colour
Splendour and motion
The Fortunes of Apelles
29
10
The four-colour theory
The problem of mixture
Apelles in the Renaissance Durer and Titian
The idea of the primaries
Apelles in the studio
Light from the East
39
30
Monumental mosaics
Meaning in mosaic
Light and liturgy
Realism and movement
The colours of Divine Light
The colours of Islam
A Dionysian Aesthetic
69
10
The new light
Suger's aesthetics
The blues of St-Denis
From glass-staining to glass-painting Workmanship versus materials
The secularization of light
Dante on the psychology of light
Colour-Language, Colour-Symbols
79
14
Basic colour terms
The colours of heraldry
Secular and sacred in colour-meaning Post-medieval perceptions of heraldic blazon
Unweaving the Rainbow
93
24
From Titian to Testa
The Romantics
Prismatics and harmony Twentieth-century epilogue
Disegno versus Colore
117
22
Alberti and Grey
Ghiberti and pereception
Colour-symbolism in the Quattrocento The Importance of materials
Leonardo da Vinci
Venetian colour in the sixteenth century
The Peacock's Tail
139
14
Colour indicators
Leonardo on alchemy
Alchemical gendering in Jan van Eyck Alchemy in the Sistine Chapel
Spiritual metaphors in metallurgy
Colour under Control: The Reign of Newton
153
24
The colours of light
Darkness visible
The problem of colour-scales
Newton's Opticks and the uses of classification
Colour-space from Newton to Seurat
The Palette: `Mother of All Colours'
177
14
The palette as system
The well-tempered palette
Delacroix's palettes
The palette as painting
Colours of the Mind: Goethe's Legacy
191
22
Colour as perception
The impact of Goethe
The morality of colour
`Painting is recording coloured sensations'
From Matisse to abstraction
The Substance of Colour
213
14
Venetian secrets
Technology and ideology
The impact of synthetic colours
Time the painter Colour as constructive material
The Sound of Colour
227
20
The Greek chromatic scale
Medieval and Renaissance colour harmonies
Arcimboldo's colour-music
Music and colour in the seventeenth century
Castel's ocular harpsichord The Romantics
Sonority and rhythm
Moving colour
Colour without Theory: The Role of Abstraction
247
23
The grammar of colour
De Stijl
Colour at the Bauhaus
Empiricism in Italy and France
Empiricism as theory
The materials of abstraction
Acknowledgments
270
1
Notes to the Text
271
32
Bibliography and Concordance
303
21
List of Illustrations
324
4
Index
328