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Colors and Their Character
B. J. Kouwer
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Description for Colors and Their Character
Paperback. Num Pages: 195 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 326.
In everyday life there does not seem to be anything unusual in speaking of the "character" of colors. We may speak of a delicate blue, a vivid red, a lively yellow, a naive green. Colors mean something to us; they have a kind of personality, more or less to be compared with the human personality. The ancient Egyptian word ~wn for "color" later came to mean also the character of a living being (8z, 414). Mantegazza even speaks of the "soul" of a color. A fine example of the intensity with which colors may be experienced is the following quotation ... Read more
In everyday life there does not seem to be anything unusual in speaking of the "character" of colors. We may speak of a delicate blue, a vivid red, a lively yellow, a naive green. Colors mean something to us; they have a kind of personality, more or less to be compared with the human personality. The ancient Egyptian word ~wn for "color" later came to mean also the character of a living being (8z, 414). Mantegazza even speaks of the "soul" of a color. A fine example of the intensity with which colors may be experienced is the following quotation ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1949
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
195
Condition
New
Number of Pages
195
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789401182355
SKU
V9789401182355
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