Gods in color

Now with a new chapter on Color Forecasting and new, easy to use perforated color chip technology, The New Munsell Student Color Set, 7th Edition, is a complete learning package th...

Under the heading “The Religion of Beauty” Hegel treats the polytheism of ancient Greece. The Greek religion shares with Judaism the idea that the divine is a self-conscious entity...

Volume 5 A Cultural History of Color in the Age of Industry covers the period 1800 to 1920, when the world embraced color like never before. Inventions, such as steam power, lithog...

In this new account of Athenian demokratia, the most significant human activities in the polis were not political deliberations or economic transactions but ritual engagements with...

Volume 6 A Cultural History of Color in the Modern Age covers the period 1920 to the present, a time of extraordinary developments in colour science, philosophy, art, design and te...

This chapter presents a hybrid view of color that depends on a view of objective color that can be called “the multiple-aspect view.” The multiple-aspect view of color holds that w...

This chapter presents an account of color constancy that explains a well-known division in the data from color-constancy experiments: So-called “paper matches” exhibit a much highe...

One of the most enduring and pervasive myths about modernist architecture is that it was white–pure white walls both inside and out. Yet nothing could be further from the truth. Th...