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The laws of contrast of colour : and their application to the arts of painting, decoration of buildings, mosaic work, tapestry and carpet weaving, calico printing, dress, paper sta... by Chevreul, M. E. (Michel Eugène), 1786-1889

The principles of harmony and contrast of colours : and their applications to the arts : including painting, interior decoration, tapestries, carpets, mosaics, coloured glazing, pa... by Chevreul, M. E. (Michel Eugène), 1786-1889

Color and meaning : art, science, and symbolism by Gage, John

Table of Contents: “…The contexts of colour -- Colour and culture -- Colour in art and its literature -- Colour in history: relative and absolute -- Colour-words and colour-patches -- Ghiberti and light -- Color Colorado: cross-cultural studies in the ancient Americas -- The fool's paradise -- Newton and painting -- Blake's Newton -- Magilphs and mysteries -- Turner as a colourist -- 'Two different worlds': Runge, Goethe and the sphere of colour -- Mood indigo: from the blue flower to the blue rider -- Chevreul between classicism and romanticism -- The technique of Seurat: a reappraisal -- Seurat's silence -- Matisse's black light -- Colour as language in early abstract painting -- A psychological background for early modern colour -- Making sense of colour: the synaesthetic dimension.…”
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