Color and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction
by Gage, John
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG/VG (spine ends bumped w/ tail having indentation. long, light scuff to front board. edge-wear to boards. textblock tightly bo
- ISBN 10
- 0821220438
- ISBN 13
- 9780821220436
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Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown and Company / Bulfinch, 1993. Hardcover. VG/VG (spine ends bumped w/ tail having indentation. long, light scuff to front board. edge-wear to boards. textblock tightly bound. dustjacket scuffed & scratched, tear to upper spine edge & rubbing to corners). Burgundy boards with gilt spine lettering. Glossy color-illustrated dust jacket with white lettering. 335 pp. 120 color and 103 BW illustrations. Revised and updated, this work considers every aspect of the subject in an analysis of colour in Western culture. It describes the first theories of colour, articulated by philosophers from Democritus to Aristotle, as well as looking at its religious significance, and the role of colour today.
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- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 174617
- Title
- Color and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction
- Author
- Gage, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG/VG (spine ends bumped w/ tail having indentation. long, light scuff to front board. edge-wear to boards. textblock tightly bo
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0821220438
- ISBN 13
- 9780821220436
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company / Bulfinch
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1993
- Keywords
- European Art ; Color ; ;
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