August 18, 2010
Basic design
The theory, fact, and fantasy of color
In the introduction to her book The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe, Sarah Lowengard writes, "Throughout the eighteenth century, people from all social and economic backgrounds thought about color, experimented with color, and offered their own notions of how to explain it, how to use it, and how to improve it. In this book, I will discuss those interests, explorations, expectations, and outcomes."
What I want to point you to is, first, the text of Lowengard's book, and second, a two-part article on the color wheel by Jude Stewart that was inspired by the book.
The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe by Sarah Lowengard...
The Wonderful Color Wheel: Part 1...
The Wonderful Color Wheel: Part 2...
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Thanks for the shout out.
The section about color wheels (which does include some marvelous images) is only one small part of the book.
I hope your readers will look (and read) further. Try locating themes that interest you with the search features. Or see where the internal links take you. . . .
Sarah
Posted by: Sarah Lowengard | August 26, 2010 3:54 PM