Colour in Art, Design and Nature

• Cover; Colour in Art, Design & Nature; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword: towards one culture; Animal camouflage: biology meets psychology, computer science and art; Lusciousness, the crafted image in a digital environment; The diversity of flower colour: how and why?; Sensations from nature; Goethe, Eastlake and Turner: from colour theory to art; Zvuk; Time and change: colour, taste and conservation; Thermo-hydraulics, colour and art; Nature's fluctuating colour captured on canvas?; On the use of colour in experimental fluid mechanics; Maxwell's first coloured light sources: artists' pigments.

• This book is ambitiously inter-disciplinary. Its eleven works, in full colour, form a striking contribution to the commonwealth of colour studies and to a possible unification of C.P. Snow's Two Cultures. Colour and inter-disciplinarity go hand in hand. This so often involves the authors leaving the comfort zone of their original specialty and striving for excellence in another. The personal story of Franziska Schenk is but one good example. The book may be divided into four main sections, defined in terms of the authors themselves. First, there are two contributions by biologists. Second, the. 

Ämnesord

Color.  (LCSH)

Color in art.  (LCSH)

Color.  (fast)

Color in art.  (fast)

ART  -- Color Theory. (bisacsh)

ART  -- Techniques -- Color. (bisacsh)

Genre

Electronic books. 

Klassifikation

ND1488 (LCC)

ART (ämneskategori)

ART (ämneskategori)

701.85 (DDC)

Iaaf (kssb/8 (machine generated))