Color Theory and Its Application in Art and Design

✍ Scribed by George A. Agoston (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 303
• Series: Springer Series in Optical Sciences 19
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book directly addresses a long-felt, unsatisfied need of modern color science - an appreciative and technically sound presentation of the principles and main offerings of colorimetry to artists and designers, written by one of them. With his unique blend of training and experience in engineering, with his lifelong interest and, latterly, career in art and art education, Dr. Agoston is unusually well prepared to convey the message of color science to art and design. His book fulfills the hopes I had when I first heard about him and his book. I foresee important and long-lasting impacts of this book, analogous to those of the epoch-making writings by earlier artist-scientists, such as Leonardo, Chevreul, Munsell, and Pope. Nearly all persons who have contributed to color science, recently as well as formerly, were attracted to the study of color by color in art. Use of objective or scientific methods did not result from any cold, detached attitude, but from the inherent difficulties of the problems concerning color and its use, by which they were intrigued. Modern education and experience has taught many people how to tackle difficult problems by use of scientific methods. Therefore - color science.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XVI
Introduction....Pages 1-4
The Concept of Color....Pages 5-10
Perceived Colors....Pages 11-16
Light and Color....Pages 17-27
Colored Materials....Pages 28-46
Color Specification (CIE)....Pages 47-65
Diverse Applications of the CIE Chromaticity Diagram....Pages 66-104
Color Systems....Pages 105-141
Color Systems (Continued): The OSA Uniform Color Scales....Pages 142-172
Color Names and Notations and Their Levels of Precision....Pages 173-180
Conditions of Viewing and the Colors Seen....Pages 181-209
Appendix....Pages 210-268
Back Matter....Pages 269-287

✦ Subjects

Optics and Electrodynamics