Theories, Technologies, Instrumentalities of Color
Anthropological and Historiographic Perspectives
Published on 23. April 2002
Book
Hardback
418 pages
978-0-7618-2265-3 (ISBN)
Description
Theories, Technologies, Instrumentalities of Color is the outcome of a workshop, held in Leuven, Belgium, in May 2000. The editors bring together contributions from philosophy, history, classics, psychology, and anthropology to discuss the production of theories, technologies and instrumentalities - the phenomeno-technical ecology - of color. Approaching the topic from a variety of backgrounds, the contributors problematise color and discuss the distinctions, concepts, assumptions, and assertibility, warrants taken for granted by "color."
Reviews / Votes
Saunders characterizes the book as a movement from a 'homogeneous, hierarchical' to a 'heterogeneous, peas-in-a-pod' understanding of color, and, indeed, the profusion of approaches contained in the volume indicates that there are many ways to approachthe subject. -- Theresa Levitt * Groppi * Saunders characterizes the book as a movement from a 'homogeneous, hierarchical' to a 'heterogeneous, peas-in-a-pod' understanding of color, and, indeed, the profusion of approaches contained in the volume indicates that there are many ways to approach the subject. -- Theresa Levitt * Groppi *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Lanham, MD
United States
Product notice
Laminated cover
Dimensions
Height: 221 mm
Width: 142 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
567 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7618-2265-3 (9780761822653)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Barbara Saunders is Research Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Leuven, in the Netherlands. Jaap van Brakel is Professor of Philosophy, and Research Council, University of Leuven, in the Netherlands.
Content
Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Acknowledgements Chapter 3 Introduction Chapter 4 Color Categories are Not Universal: Replications and New Evidence Chapter 5 The Munsell Constraint Chapter 6 The Roots/Routes of Color Term Reference Chapter 7 Why Don't Children Name or Draw What They "See?" Chapter 8 Color Perception: Processing of Wavelength Information and Conscious Experience of Color Chapter 9 Getting in Touch with the World Chapter 10 Contrast Colors: A Powerful and Disturbing Phenomenon Chapter 11 A Revision of the Grammar of Reality: Readable Technologies Chapter 12 Attributes of Color and Elementaristic Misconceptions of Color Representations Chapter 13 Chromatic Language Games and their Congeners Chapter 14 Imprinted on the Mind: Passive and Active in Aristotle's Theory of Perception Chapter 15 Aristotle's Non-Reductive, Anthropocentric Materialism Chapter 16 The Colors in the Drops: Roger Bacon's Explanation of the Rainbow Chapter 17 Mirrors: Truth and Error Chapter 18 Newton and Goethe: Experimenting on Colors Chapter 19 Goethe as an Exploratory Experimentalist: A Source of New Insight? Chapter 20 Was there Ever a Physiological Opponent Color Code? Chapter 21 Language Forms the Internal Color Space Chapter 22 From Eye to Machine: Shifting Authority in Color Measurement Chapter 23 The Coming-to-be of Color Spaces Chapter 24 Color Vision: Psychophysics and Physiology- a Brief Historical Sketch Chapter 25 The Phenomenal Color "Space" is Not a Space Chapter 26 Bibliography Chapter 27 Authors Index Chapter 28 Subject Index Chapter 29 About the Contributors