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Colour and Light in Ancient and Medieval Art (Hardcover) Loot Price: R4,784
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Colour and Light in Ancient and Medieval Art (Hardcover): Chloe N. Duckworth, Anne E. Sassin

Colour and Light in Ancient and Medieval Art (Hardcover)

Chloe N. Duckworth, Anne E. Sassin

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The myriad ways in which colour and light have been adapted and applied in the art, architecture, and material culture of past societies is the focus of this interdisciplinary volume. Light and colour's iconographic, economic, and socio-cultural implications are considered by established and emerging scholars including art historians, archaeologists, and conservators, who address the variety of human experience of these sensory phenomena. In today's world it is the norm for humans to be surrounded by strong, artificial colours, and even to see colour as perhaps an inessential or surface property of the objects around us. Similarly, electric lighting has provided the power and ability to illuminate and manipulate environments in increasingly unprecedented ways. In the context of such a saturated experience, it becomes difficult to identify what is universal, and what is culturally specific about the human experience of light and colour. Failing to do so, however, hinders the capacity to approach how they were experienced by people of centuries past. By means of case studies spanning a broad historical and geographical context and covering such diverse themes as architecture, cave art, the invention of metallurgy, and medieval manuscript illumination, the contributors to this volume provide an up-to-date discussion of these themes from a uniquely interdisciplinary perspective. The papers range in scope from the meaning of colour in European prehistoric art to the technical art of the glazed tiles of the Shah mosque in Isfahan. Their aim is to explore a multifarious range of evidence and to evaluate and illuminate what is a truly enigmatic topic in the history of art and visual culture.

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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: December 2017
First published: 2016
Authors: Chloe N. Duckworth • Anne E. Sassin
Dimensions: 246 x 174 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 978-1-4724-7839-9
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > BC to 500 CE, Ancient & classical world
Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 500 CE to 1400 > General
Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeology by period / region > General
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LSN: 1-4724-7839-8
Barcode: 9781472478399

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