von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang ; Matthaei Rupprecht; Herb Aach

Goethe's Color Theory

New York, NY, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1971. Hardcover. Color illustrated dj with black text, light green boards with green text on spine. 275 pp. Bw and color illustrations. From the library of American Abstract Artist Judith Rothschild. Contents: Contributions to optics -- Announcement of a thesis on color -- Why the contributions to optics were discontinued -- The derivation of the color wheel from Goethe's prism experiments -- The nature of prismatic colors -- The reconstruction of Goethe's color wheel -- The significance of Goethe's color wheel -- Goethe's reflections on method -- Precautions for the observer -- The pure phenomenon -- Quotations from the introduction to Die Propyläen -- Introduction to the lectures on physics -- The color theory -- Preface to the first edition of 1810 -- Physiological colors -- Physical colors -- Entoptic colors -- Chemical colors -- General introspective views -- Adjacent relationships -- Sensual and moral effects of color -- The eye -- Confessions of the author -- Letter to Josef Karl Stieler -- Gentle Xenien VI -- Legacy -- List of Goethe's writings on color theory -- Charles Eastlake's 1820 translation of the "didactic part" of the color theory. Good, dj has considerable wear, tear in bottom right orner, peeling around edges, other small tears elsewhere. Boards excellent, slightly yellowed at bottom edge. Stain on endpage, all other pages excellent condition.

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Catalogue: Art Technique

Keywords: Art Technique ; Color Theory ; ;