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Colour and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction by John Gage
Category: unmapped | Series: 60th Anniversary Edition
In this seminal study, John Gage considers every conceivable aspect of color in a groundbreaking analysis of the subject. He describes the first three theories of color, articulated by philosophers from Democritus to Aristotle, as well as attempts to organize it or endow it with symbolic power. He unfol ...Show more
The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art by David Lewis-Williams
Category: Design | Series: 60th Anniversary Edition
The breathtakingly beautiful art created deep inside the caves of western Europe in the late Ice Age provokes awe and wonder in equal measure. What do these animals and symbols, depicted on the walls of such caves as Lascaux, Chauvet and Altamira, tell us about the nature of the atavistic mind? How did ...Show more
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