About this title: "I cannot see why sensation should be less precise than thought. The scientist designs conceptual models, the artist perceptual models." --Karl Gerstner Color is Gerstner's essential medium. In this book, he presents the pure sensation of color with great precision. He explores color physically, sumptuously, yet with cool, formal clarity in the book's seventy color plates. He also pursues the subject of color historically and psychologically in a series of essays, citing examples from Aristotle to Andreas Speiser, from Goethe to Max Luscher; theories and speculations about the character and ...
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Edition: First American Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The MIT Press, Cambridge
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780262070843ISBN:0262070847
Description: Very Good Plus in Very Good Plus jacket. Square 8vo. Black cloth in dust jacket., on bottom edges of front free endpaper, and on last 2 pages there is small faint stain marks. no other flaws. really, a much better than average copy of this book. no writing, markings, tears, etc. very well preserved dj.; appears to be first mit press edition.; 225pp., illustrated throughout in color with numerous gatefolds.; important work on color, color theory. read more
Edition: 1st Ed.
Binding: Black. /silver
Publisher: MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780262070843ISBN:0262070847
Description: B/W & color illustrations. Hardcover. Gift incription by author, fep. Near fine/near fine., Gray/white. Square quarto, 225 pp., In mylar. Study of the writing on color by Gerstner, about historical, philosophical, and psychological aspects of color. Gift inscription: "W2, A space age coloring kit for one of most promising designers of the future, best Henri 82". The name is scrawled, and unreadable. There are over 70 color plates/charts in the text. Book is from the working library of Star*Net, ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date Published: 1981-10-22
ISBN-13:9780262070843ISBN:0262070847
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