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A wide-ranging and engaging introduction to the place and power of
colour in life and art by John Gage, author of the award-winning
Colour and Culture. The complex phenomenon of colour has received
detailed attention from the perspectives of physics, chemistry,
physiology, psychology, linguistics and philosophy. However, the
people who work most closely with colour – artists – have
rarely been canvassed for their opinions on this mysterious
subject. John Gage sets out to address this omission by focusing on
the thoughts and practices of artists. Colour in Art is concerned
with the history of colour, but is not itself a history; instead
each chapter develops a theme from a different scientific
discipline, as seen from the viewpoint of such diverse artists such
as Wassily Kandinsky, Vincent van Gogh, Sonia Delaunay, Bridget
Riley and Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri. Drawing on examples through
the ages, from ancient times to the present, the many topics
covered include flags, synaesthesia, Theosophy, theatre design,
film, chromotherapy and chromophobia. Featuring a new foreword by
art writer Kelly Grovier outlining contemporary developments in the
study of colour, and an updated bibliography, this new edition of
this classic text offers a wide-ranging and engaging introduction
to the place and power of colour in life and art.
Is colour just a physiological phenomenon? Does it have an effect
on feelings? This vividly written book, the sequel to the
award-winning Colour and Culture, is ultimately informed by the
conviction that the meaning of colour lies in the particular
historical context in which it is experienced and interpreted. John
Gage explores the mysteries of themes as diverse as the optical
mixing techniques implicit in mosaic, colour-languages in Latin
America at the time of the Spanish Conquest and the ideas of Goethe
and Runge, Blake and Turner. For students and lecturers in the
history of art and culture, for artists and designers, and for
psychologists and scientists with a special interest in the
subject, John Gage has produced a compelling study of the meaning
of colour through the ages.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
No single work is more responsible for the heightened interest in
argumentation and informal reasoning--and their relation to ethics
and jurisprudence in the late twentieth century--than Chaim
Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca's monumental study of
argumentation, "La Nouvelle Rhetorique: Traite de l'Argumentation."
Published in 1958 and translated into English as "The New Rhetoric"
in 1969, this influential volume returned the study of reason to
classical concepts of rhetoric. In The Promise of Reason: Studies
in The New Rhetoric, leading scholars of rhetoric Barbara Warnick,
Jeanne Fahnestock, Alan G. Gross, Ray D. Dearin, and James
Crosswhite are joined by prominent and emerging European and
American scholars from different disciplines to demonstrate the
broad scope and continued relevance of "The New Rhetoric" more than
fifty years after its initial publication.
Divided into four sections--Conceptual Understandings of The New
Rhetoric, Extensions of "The New Rhetoric," The Ethical Turn in
Perelman and "The New Rhetoric," and Uses of "The New
Rhetoric"--this insightful volume covers a wide variety of topics.
It includes general assessments of "The New Rhetoric" and its
central concepts, as well as applications of those concepts to
innovative areas in which argumentation is being studied, such as
scientific reasoning, visual media, and literary texts. Additional
essays compare Perelman's ideas with those of other significant
thinkers like Kenneth Burke and Richard McKeon, explore his career
as a philosopher and activist, and shed new light on Perelman and
Olbrechts- Tyteca's collaboration. Two contributions present new
scholarship based on recent access to letters, interviews, and
archival materials housed in the Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
Among the volume's unique gifts is a personal memoir from
Perelman's daughter, Noemi Perelman Mattis, published here for the
first time.
"The Promise of Reason," expertly compiled and edited by John T.
Gage, is the first to investigate the pedagogical implications of
Perelman and Olbrechts- Tyteca's groundbreaking work and will lead
the way to the next generation of argumentation studies.
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