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Painting, Science, and the Perception of Coloured Shadows - 'The Most Beautiful Blue' (Hardcover)
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Painting, Science, and the Perception of Coloured Shadows - 'The Most Beautiful Blue' (Hardcover)
Series: Science and the Arts since 1750
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Many artists and scientists - including Buffon, Goethe, and Philipp
Otto Runge - who observed the vividly coloured shadows that appear
outdoors around dawn and dusk, or indoors when a candle burns under
waning daylight, chose to describe their colours as 'beautiful'.
Paul Smith explains what makes these ephemeral effects worthy of
such appreciation - or how depictions of coloured shadows have
genuine aesthetic and epistemological significance. This
multidisciplinary book synthesises methodologies drawn from art
history (close pictorial analysis), psychology and neuroscience
(theories of colour constancy), history of science (the changing
paradigms used to explain coloured shadows), and philosophy
(theories of perception and aesthetic value drawn from Wittgenstein
and Merleau-Ponty). This title will be of interest to scholars in
art history, art theory, and the history of science and technology.
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