Spirit of Colors the Art of Karl Gerstner 1981 Hardcover Book

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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
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Country of Origin
Switzerland
Ex Libris
No
ISBN
9780262070843
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262070847
ISBN-13
9780262070843
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1447641

Product Key Features

Book Title
Spirit of Colors : the Art of Karl Gerstner
Number of Pages
225 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1981
Topic
General, European
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Design, Art
Author
Karl Gerstner
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
52.9 Oz
Item Length
7.7 in
Item Width
7.7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
Preface by
Gross, Johannes
LCCN
81-082618
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
"I consider him one of the most impressive and creative men in graphic arts today. His clarity and inventiveness is consistently a mark of his work." -Gyorgy Kepes, Professor Emeritus, MIT, Founder and Director Emeritus of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies
Dewey Edition
19
Dewey Decimal
709/.2/4
Synopsis
"I cannot see why sensation should be less precise than thought. The scientist designs conceptual models, the artist perceptual models." -Karl Gerstner Color is Gerstner's essential medium. In this book, he presents the pure sensation of color with great precision. He explores color physically, sumptuously, yet with cool, formal clarity in the book's seventy color plates. He also pursues the subject of color historically and psychologically in a series of essays, citing examples from Aristotle to Andreas Speiser, from Goethe to Max Luscher; theories and speculations about the character and employment of color and form. His notes and observations are often couched in a poetic, aphoristic manner: "Kandinsky: in general, then, color is a means of exercising a direct influence on the soul. The color is the piano key. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano key with all its strings." "Albers: if one says 'red' and 50 persons are listening to him, they will be imagining 50 reds. And no doubt: all these reds will be very different." "Goethe worked in his green room. In the blue one he welcomed guests he didn't like. So that they would leave soon." The essays include: The Spirit of Color: TheFarbenlehre of Goethe; Conception-Perception: Fifteen Aspects to a Sentence of Max Bill; The Precision of Sensation;and Is Constructive Art at an End? Or its beginning?The illustrations include the "Color Sounds," the "Color Forms," and the "Color Lines."
LC Classification Number
N7153.G43

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