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List of Figures ix Introduction xxvii Part 1 Global Colour 1 1 Wittgenstein and the Conundrum of Theorising Colour 3 2 Indigo, Blueness and the Moral Economy of Colour in South Asia 21 3 Colours of Contemporary Indigenous Art in Australia 36 4 The Chinese Five-element Five-colour Theory 55 Part 2 Colour, Science, and Theory 73 5 Preference for Coloured Stimuli and the Colours of Art 75 6 Art and the Curiosities of Color Vision 85 7 Colour Theory for Children 98 8 Coloured Lighting and Perceived Atmosphere 113 9 The Reproduction of Colour and Texture 130 Part 3 Materiality 147 10 Material Science and Art in the Twenty-first Century 149 11 Colour and Materiality in the Victorian Age 158 12 Eliot Elisofon: the Materiality of Colour in Photography, Technicolor Film and the Archive of Moulin Rouge (1952) 174 13 Art Historical and Scientific Perspectives on Pigments and Dyes in Ukiyo-e Prints 192 14 The Rediscovery of the Lost Art of Lustre 207 15 On the Changing Color of Paintings 223 Part 4 Naturalism and Autonomy 243 16 Cezanne, Matisse and the Autonomy of Pictorial Colour 245 17 Bauhaus Colour and its Legacy 262 18 Color Field Painting: From Modernist Critique to Cultural Integration 278 19 On the Intersection Between Color and the Spiritual in Interwar German Art and Architecture 292 20 Red in the Art of William Holman Hunt 308 Part 5 The Environment 321 21 Adrian Stokes: Colour, Form and Materiality in the Architecture of Venice 323 22 Le Corbusier's Use of Colour in His Buildings 339 23 Color Gradients in Modern Abstract Sculpture 356 24 Ruskin and the Science of Colour 374 25 The Derived Palette for Architecture 393 26 James Turrell and the Color of Light 406 Part 6 The Market 421 27 The Symbolism of Colours and Colour Value in the Art Market 423 28 Colour in Residential Interiors During the British Interwar Period 441 29 Colour in Traditional Textile Clothes from Thailand 460 30 Color Forecasting and the Color Ensemble in Everyday Fashion, Design, and Decoration 477 Index 494 |
JUDITH MOTTRAM is Professor of Visual Arts at Lancaster University. Her research focuses on color, drawing, and the intersections between creativity, research, and practice. Her writings have been widely published in journals and edited volumes, and she has a particular interest in how color is understood across disciplines.
PAUL SMITH is Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Warwick and an expert on color in nineteenth-century art. His publications include Seurat and the Avant-garde (1997) and Painting, Science, and the Perception of Coloured Shadows (2021). He has held fellowships at institutions such as the Getty Research Institute and has contributed to television and radio programmes on Impressionism and Delacroix.