{"id":297,"date":"2024-05-09T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atomic-hair.net\/?p=297"},"modified":"2024-05-09T15:23:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T15:23:21","slug":"the-daily-heller-a-lighter-shade-of-palette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/atomic-hair.net\/index.php\/2024\/05\/09\/the-daily-heller-a-lighter-shade-of-palette\/","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Heller: A Lighter Shade of Palette"},"content":{"rendered":"

How could Taschen have the temerity to use the British spelling of \u201ccolor\u201d on the cover of The Book of Colour<\/em> Concepts<\/em><\/a>? Well, given Taschen\u2019s amazing capacity to publish huge multilingual tomes on art, design, typography, photography, popular culture, etc., they can do any linguistic thing they want. So, if they want to call color COLOUR, it is their right. This two-volume set by Alexandra Loske and Sarah Lowengard is not just elegant \u2026 and massive \u2026 and intelligent, it is the final word on color as an essential life force. \u201cWe can trace an active intellectual engagement with colour throughout human history,\u201d writes Loske, \u201cfrom simple concepts used in early art to highly developed systems rooted in modern science.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Still, as grand as it is, The Book of Colour Concepts 1686\u20131963<\/em> covers, as you can see from the title, just a slice of color in human history. \u201cNo book on colour can provide an encyclopedic record with a cultural, historical, geographical and thematic claim for completion,\u201d Loske adds, noting that \u201cmetaphorically speaking\u201d this book is \u201ca coat of many colours.\u201d Exploring 67 color \u201cconcepts\u201d in nine chapters, in Vol. 1 the authors feature early charts and tables, circles, wheels and globes, the rise of color theory and nomenclatures and standards; Vol. 2 examines the teaching of color, the early 20th century, spiritualism, occultism and music, Eastern color concepts and, finally, the Bauhaus and beyond.<\/p>\n

Lavishly illustrated and generously annotated, this book\u2014published in three languages, as is Taschen\u2019s trademark\u2014is not for the faint of heart or the weak of muscle. The volumes are packed so tightly with beautiful art and essential information that reading them on one\u2019s lap will result in 50 shades of black and blue.<\/p>\n

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But don\u2019t let the bulk dissuade you from getting this book. It is a masterpiece of erudition on and about the brightest virtues of the natural and supernatural world \u2014 colour.<\/p>\n

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Johann Henrich Meynier, A Color Table For Illustrators and enthusiasts of Watercolor, 1799.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Pjilipp Pttp Runge, Colour Globe, 1810.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Emily Noyes Vanderpoel, Practical Manual for the Lay Student of Color, 1902<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Carry van Biema, Colors and Forms as Living Forces, 1930<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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