Description |
225 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
Contents |
Foreword / Grace Glueck -- Annotated biography -- Essays. Is constructive art at an end? Or at its beginning? -- Conception-Perception: 15 reflections on a proposition of Max Bill -- The Precision of sensation -- The spirit of colors: Goethe's Theory of Colors (The precision of sensation, 2) -- Color and the colors (The precision of sensation, 3) -- Pictures. 1. Aperspectives -- Aperspective 3 -- 2. Serial pictures -- The golden-sectioned pillar (Hommage à Le Corbusier) -- Diagon 31² Red/green -- 3. Carro pictures -- Carro 64 (Do-it-yourself) -- 4. Metachromes -- Parameters for making pictures -- 5. Apparatus -- Prism picture no. 6 -- Lens picture no. 15 -- Auto vision -- Atmos-Sphere (E-Motion-Picture) -- Times Square -- Color organ -- 6. AlgoRhythms -- AlgoRhythm 1 (Do-it-yourself) -- François Fricker: A surprising characteristic of inscribed circles -- 7. Color sounds -- Color sound 7 (Homage to the homage to the square) -- Max Lüscher: Color sound 15 -- Color sound 1C -- 8. Color forms -- The color-form continuum (The precision of sensation, 4) -- 9. Color lines -- Color lines: Instead of coming to the point -- Editor's postscript. |
Note |
Translation of: Der Geist der Farbe. |
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Title page covers to leaves. |
Subject |
Gerstner, Karl.
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Color in art.
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Added Author |
Gerstner, Karl.
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Stierlin, Henri.
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Added Title |
Art of Karl Gerstner.
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ISBN |
0262070847: $39.95 |
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