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A Cultural History of Color in the Age of Industry covers the
period 1800 to 1920, when the world embraced color like never
before. Inventions, such as steam power, lithography, photography,
electricity, motor cars, aviation, and cheaper color printing, all
contributed to a new exuberance about color. Available pigments and
colored products - made possible by new technologies, industrial
manufacturing, commercialization, and urbanization - also greatly
increased, as did illustrated printed literature for the mass
market. Color, both literally and metaphorically, was splashed
around, and became an expressive tool for artists, designers, and
writers. Color shapes an individual's experience of the world and
also how society gives particular spaces, objects, and moments
meaning. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Color examines
how color has been created, traded, used, and interpreted over the
last 5000 years. The themes covered in each volume are color
philosophy and science; color technology and trade; power and
identity; religion and ritual; body and clothing; language and
psychology; literature and the performing arts; art; architecture
and interiors; and artefacts. Alexandra Loske is Curator at the
Royal Pavilion and Museums, Brighton, UK Volume 5 in the Cultural
History of Color set. General Editors: Carole P. Biggam and Kirsten
Wolf
A Cultural History of Color in the Renaissance covers the period
1400 to 1650, a time of change, conflict, and transformation.
Innovations in color production transformed the material world of
the Renaissance, especially in ceramics, cloth, and paint.
Collectors across Europe prized colorful objects such as feathers
and gemstones as material illustrations of foreign lands. The
advances in technology and the increasing global circulation of
colors led to new color terms enriching language. Color shapes an
individual's experience of the world and also how society gives
particular spaces, objects, and moments meaning. The 6 volume set
of the Cultural History of Color examines how color has been
created, traded, used, and interpreted over the last 5000 years.
The themes covered in each volume are color philosophy and science;
color technology and trade; power and identity; religion and
ritual; body and clothing; language and psychology; literature and
the performing arts; art; architecture and interiors; and
artefacts. Amy Buono is Assistant Professor at the Wilkinson
College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Chapman
University , USA. Sven Dupre is Professor of History of Art,
Science and Technology at Utrecht University and the University of
Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Volume 3 in the Cultural History of
Color set. General Editors: Carole P. Biggam and Kirsten Wolf
A Cultural History of Color in the Modern Age covers the period
1920 to the present, a time of extraordinary developments in colour
science, philosophy, art, design and technologies. The expansion of
products produced with synthetic dyes was accelerated by mass
consumerism as artists, designers, architects, writers, theater and
filmmakers made us a 'color conscious' society. This influenced
what we wore, how we chose to furnish and decorate our homes, and
how we responded to the vibrancy and chromatic eclecticism of
contemporary visual cultures.The volume brings together research on
how philosophers, scientists, linguists and artists debated color's
polyvalence, its meaning to different cultures, and how it could be
measured, manufactured, manipulated and enjoyed. Color shapes an
individual's experience of the world and also how society gives
particular spaces, objects, and moments meaning. The 6 volume set
of the Cultural History of Color examines how color has been
created, traded, used, and interpreted over the last 5000 years.
The themes covered in each volume are color philosophy and science;
color technology and trade; power and identity; religion and
ritual; body and clothing; language and psychology; literature and
the performing arts; art; architecture and interiors; and
artefacts. Anders Steinvall is Senior Lecturer in English
Linguistics at Umea University, Sweden. Sarah Street is Professor
of Film at the University of Bristol, UK. Volume 6 in the Cultural
History of Color set. General Editors: Carole P. Biggam and Kirsten
Wolf
A Cultural History of Color in the Age of Enlightenment covers the
period 1650 to 1800. From the Baroque to the Neo-classical, color
transformed art, architecture, ceramics, jewelry, and glass.
Newton, using a prism, demonstrated the seven separate hues, which
encouraged the development of color wheels and tables, and the
increased standardization of color names. Technological advances in
color printing resulted in superb maps and anatomical and botanical
images. Identity and wealth were signalled with color, in uniforms,
flags, and fashion. And the growth of empires, trade, and slavery
encouraged new ideas about color. Color shapes an individual's
experience of the world and also how society gives particular
spaces, objects, and moments meaning. The 6 volume set of the
Cultural History of Color examines how color has been created,
traded, used, and interpreted over the last 5000 years. The themes
covered in each volume are color philosophy and science; color
technology and trade; power and identity; religion and ritual; body
and clothing; language and psychology; literature and the
performing arts; art; architecture and interiors; and artefacts.
Carole P. Biggam is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in English
Language and Linguistics at the University of Glasgow, UK. Kirsten
Wolf is Professor of Old Norse and Scandinavian Linguistics at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. Volume 4 in the Cultural
History of Color set. General Editors: Carole P. Biggam and Kirsten
Wolf
A Cultural History of Color in the Medieval Age covers the period
500 to 1400. The medieval age saw an extraordinary burst of color -
from illuminated manuscripts and polychrome sculpture to
architecture and interiors, and from enamelled and jewelled
metalwork to colored glass and the exquisite decoration of
artefacts. Color was used to denote affiliation in heraldry and
social status in medieval clothes. Color names were created in
various languages and their resonance explored in poems, romances,
epics, and plays. And, whilst medieval philosophers began to
explain the rainbow, theologians and artists developed a color
symbolism for both virtues and vices. Color shapes an individual's
experience of the world and also how society gives particular
spaces, objects, and moments meaning. The 6 volume set of the
Cultural History of Color examines how color has been created,
traded, used, and interpreted over the last 5000 years. The themes
covered in each volume are color philosophy and science; color
technology and trade; power and identity; religion and ritual; body
and clothing; language and psychology; literature and the
performing arts; art; architecture and interiors; and artefacts.
Carole P. Biggam is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in English
Language and Linguistics at the University of Glasgow, UK. Kirsten
Wolf is Professor of Old Norse and Scandinavian Linguistics at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. Volume 2 in the Cultural
History of Color set. General Editors: Carole P. Biggam and Kirsten
Wolf
A Cultural History of Color in Antiquity covers the period 3000 BCE
to 500 CE. Although the smooth, white marbles of Classical
sculpture and architecture lull us into thinking that the color
world of the ancient Greeks and Romans was restrained and
monochromatic, nothing could be further from the truth. Classical
archaeologists are rapidly uncovering and restoring the vivid,
polychrome nature of the ancient built environment. At the same
time, new understandings of ancient color cognition and language
have unlocked insights into the ways - often unfamiliar and strange
to us - that ancient peoples thought and spoke about color. Color
shapes an individual's experience of the world and also how society
gives particular spaces, objects, and moments meaning. The 6 volume
set of the Cultural History of Color examines how color has been
created, traded, used, and interpreted over the last 5000 years.
The themes covered in each volume are color philosophy and science;
color technology and trade; power and identity; religion and
ritual; body and clothing; language and psychology; literature and
the performing arts; art; architecture and interiors; and
artefacts. David Wharton is Associate Professor of Classical
Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA.
Volume 1 in the Cultural History of Color set. General Editors:
Carole P. Biggam and Kirsten Wolf
A Cultural History of Color presents a history of 5000 years of
color in western culture. The first systematic and comprehensive
history, the work examines how color has been perceived, developed,
produced and traded, and how it has been used in all aspects of
performance - from the political to the religious to the artistic -
and how it shapes all we see, from food and nature to interiors and
architecture, to objects and art, to fashion and adornment, to the
color of the naked human body, and to the way our minds work and
our languages are created. Chapter titles are identical across each
of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific
period in one of the volumes, or following a theme across history
by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six. The themes (and
chapter titles) are: Color Philosophy and Science; Color Technology
and Trade; Power and Identity; Religion and Ritual; Body and
Clothing; Language and Psychology; Literature and the Performing
Arts; Art; Architecture and Interiors; Artefacts. The six volumes
cover: 1 – Antiquity (3,000 BCE to 500 CE); 2 – Medieval Age
(500 to 1400); 3 – Renaissance (1400 to 1650); 4 – Age of
Enlightenment (1650 to 1800); 5 – Age of Industry (1800 to 1920);
6 – Modern Age (1920 to the present). The page extent for the
pack is approximately 1760pp. Each volume opens with Notes on
Contributors and an Introduction and concludes with Notes,
Bibliography, and an Index. The Cultural Histories Series A
Cultural History of Color is part of The Cultural Histories Series.
Titles are available as hardcover sets for libraries needing just
one subject or preferring a tangible reference for their shelves or
as part of a fully-searchable digital library. The digital product
is available to institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual
access via www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com . Individual volumes
for academics and researchers interested in specific historical
periods are also available in print or digitally via
www.bloomsburycollections.com .
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