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Spirit of Colors : The Art of Karl Gerstner by Karl Gerstner (1981, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherMIT Press
ISBN-100262070847
ISBN-139780262070843
eBay Product ID (ePID)1447641
Product Key Features
Book TitleSpirit of Colors : the Art of Karl Gerstner
Number of Pages225 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1981
TopicGeneral, European
IllustratorYes
GenreDesign, Art
AuthorKarl Gerstner
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight52.9 Oz
Item Length7.7 in
Item Width7.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Preface byGross, Johannes
LCCN81-082618
TitleLeadingThe
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 Edition19
Dewey Decimal709/.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 NumberN7153.G43
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